World Cup affecting office productivity

As the World Cup came, many people decide to catch the late game and could not rest well at night. Therefor many employers complains that the World Cup is affecting office productivity. However, I do not agree with their statement.

Due to the difference is time zone between South Africa and Singapore, all games are held in late night. Many soccer fans decide to burn the midnight oil and watch the game. Employers in companies believes that their productivity drop during the peroid is due to their employees could not rest well. I think this is not ture because we all know that the World cup games are played at 7:30, 10:00 and 2:30. So a smart employee will be able to watch the earlier 2 games and go to sleep before 12 midnight, which is a very normal to sleep even if they did not watch the game.
Also, there is a study says that if people want to catch the late 2:30 game, they could sleep 4 and half hours before it to get their brain fully rested and then continue to sleep after the game end at 4 to allow their body to rest.

So I should say that the World Cup did not affect the office productivity but the poor decisions made by the the employee nt to rest well affected it.


done by Yang Xin Yu