About A Million Workers Are Expected To Call In Sick Today To Watch The World Cup

Almost a million workers are expected to call in "sick" today — or take the day off — to watch the much anticipated U.S.-Germany World Cup game.  Visier, a workforce analytics company, found that approximately 3.4 million U.S. employees are absent from work on any given day, according to the Department of Labor and Training. That number is expected to rise to 4.3 million today — about 939,042 more than usual.  To calculate this number, Visier looked at the average "unscheduled absentee...