World Cup fever.

Office productivity is now a major concern of managements. With low office productivity, it will affect employees' performance at work and employers' business as well. Office productivity cannot be measured and therefore, there is no way to ensure that actions taken can improve performance and achieves tangible results. The recent World Cup games is one of the example to have caused office productivity to fall, soccer fans are prepared for one whole month of late nights and bleary-eyed mornings.

All three articles by three different countries provide information on how office productivity is affected by the recent World Cup game. Employees are willing to sacrifice their sleeping time or even ask for a few days' leave in order to catch their favourite game. Some of them can even lie in order to get their leaves approved. In China, employees are also willing to quit their job in order not to miss the game as this event takes place once every four years. All these are causing the productivity in office to fall.

On the other hand, employees can also be distracted at work by the games going on around the world. They might be surfing the net watching replays on the matches or posting comments on forums, during office hours. These actions are most likely to cause the increases in bandwidth consumption in office, therefore causing the crash in company servers. Consequences such as a longer time is needed to download important files or opening business-critical applications will occur.

As World Cup is the greatest sporting event in the world and people do not want to give it a miss, I feel that employees have the rights to enjoy the game during this period. If they want to take a little bit of time off or want to go early to watch a game, they will make up that time elsewhere by doing overtime work in future. Otherwise, they can choose to start work earlier in the morning, therefore, they could finish up their work and leave earlier as well. With proper time-management, people can enjoy the games after a long day at work.


By: Zhengyi (104611S)