The 58th championship football game is set to take place on Sunday, February 11th, and is sure to inspire an American tradition of cheering, drinking, eating, and tailgating, leaving workers exhausted for the week ahead. In fact, new research of American workers from AI-powered IT management platform Atera shows 41% of hybrid workers are planning to stay at home and work remotely the Monday after the Big Game. Of those planning to work remotely, 27% plan to tell their manager they are not feeling well and don’t want to get others sick, and 1 in 4 (25%) plan to tell their manager they have an “appointment.”
Even those who do show up to work on Big Game Monday don’t necessarily plan to give it their best: 33% admit they are likely to get less work than typically done, 24% say they are likely to be less responsive than usual, and 26% say they’re likely to be unproductive. What’s more, 31% expect to be groggy, 28% expect to be hungover, and 25% expect to be cranky. Some are already planning ahead, with 18% holding back finished work now to share later.
However, this lax Monday for general workers comes at a cost for IT heroes, as 31% of remote or hybrid employees admit that working remotely means they’re more likely to have IT issues. Furthermore, 50% admit they are more likely to use their own personal devices instead of work-issued hardware when working remotely, which puts employees at a higher risk of falling victim to phishing and cyber threats. With all these concerns, a whopping 64% agreed “it is unacceptable” for IT professionals to be slow to respond on Big Game Monday.
This is set to put immense pressure on American IT professionals, with 77% expecting a “tsunami” of IT problems and emergencies. In fact, 75% believe it will be the busiest day of 2024 and 46% of IT professionals expect a mean 26% uptick in IT tickets. As a result, 81% of IT professionals feel more pressure to be online to support their colleagues on Big Game Monday, while 62% of…
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