The Great British Sickie: Millions Set To Call In ‘Football Flu’ After World Cup Celebrations

There are immoderate dense heads this morning, with millions gearing up for the “Great British Sickie” this World Cup. 

England fans person plentifulness to observe aft a 4-2 triumph implicit Croatia successful Dallas kicked disconnected their run, with late-night pints rolling into immoderate superior hangovers.

In fact, caller probe shows that astir 2 cardinal workers are sacking disconnected enactment to retrieve from the football festivities. And arsenic for those brave capable to prehend the day, a question of ‘soft sickies’ – fundamentally logging connected from location and doing nish – is acceptable to expanse the country, moving connected minimal sleep, dilatory starts, and feeling acold from match‑fit.

Men are much apt than women to bunk off, but it’s the younger assemblage truly mounting the gait with astir fractional of under-35s (47 per cent) admitting they’d telephone successful aft a late-night match, according to VoucherCodes. And with 12.4 cardinal Brits heading to pubs and bars to soak up the action, implicit a 4th of sociable fans (27.5 per cent) are already mentally pencilling successful a time disconnected conscionable to recover.

The biggest culprits?

The high-risk hangover crew: younger fans successful shift-based oregon hourly roles, acold much apt to take match-night marathons implicit a day’s wages.

The distant controllers: afloat distant workers staying logged connected portion recovering from 4am finishes, starring to dips successful productivity alternatively than authoritative absences.

The pub loyalists: the ‘one much round’ crowd, driving 58.5 cardinal pints and £122.8 cardinal successful late-night spending, followed by immoderate precise dilatory mornings after.

The well-intentioned but wrecked: those who mean to instrumentality it easy, lone to beryllium undone by other time, penalties and adrenaline pushing 10pm kick-offs heavy into the night.

The tactical team: hybrid workers cautiously readying WFH days astir cardinal fixtures, implicit with camera-off mornings and mysteriously patchy calendar availability.

Future matches are tipped to beryllium adjacent much apt to nutrient sickies, arsenic England play matches with adjacent aboriginal UK kick-off times. Any 1/2/3am commencement would apt spot alarm clocks ignored nationwide.