.Monday, June 28, 2010 ' 11:01 PM Y
What comes every 4 years?
With 20 people chasing a ball during a match?
With happiness, joy, anger, tears, disappoinments and all kinds of emotion?
When games like this cause unexpected reactions?
Yes!!It's the WORLD CUP!!
After 4 years of waiting from the last World Cup in 2006.
Finally football lovers can watch 32 countries from over the world competing
to get the title which is what they all have been waiting for. However, did we
ever think of how will World Cup affect our daily life? World Cup matches are
broadcasted during the night in Singapore at the timing of 7pm, 10pm and 2.30am.
It would be a bad timing for football lovers who are working in Singapore to watch
the soccer match as they sacrifice their sleeping time to watch the match instead
of replenish their energy. This infact cause a huge headache on employers as employees
will be feeling half dead when they reach the office in the morning. It slows down their
working speed as well as the morale to do work as they are tired. More over, football lovers
would actually take fake leaveor long leave in order to watch their football match. This in
turn cause the company to lose manpower hence slowing down the workplace productivity. In addition, they would get themselves involved in group discussion chats online reviewing the recent match while on work. However, there are solutions in handling such issues in Singapore.
Companies can hire temporary staffs to cover their gap while allowing football lovers to enjoy the World Cup matches. In this way, the workers are satisfied and their morale is high. This will in turn affect their mentality in working as they are happy that they can watch the matches.
Similarly in China, almost 3/4 percentage of employees would consider watching match late at night. Some would even quit their job to watch World Cup. From these situations, we can see that the population are very engaged in World Cup. This is how World Cup is being viewed by the people.
In England, the World Cup are broadcasted in the afternoon where just few hours before their knock off timing. Workers would rush and complete their work in order to leave early so that they could watch their own nation playing in the qualifying round which sees them either packing their bags heading home or extending their stay. This infact affects the quality of the work that they produce as they rush to complete them.
World Cup has always been an event which is well known over the world. If football lovers would to miss this year's World Cup, they would have to wait for another 4 boring years before the excitement pours around again. This could also be one of the reason why so many people are eager to abandon their job and watch World Cup. In addition, as a student, I would also sacrifice my sleep in order to catch the World Cup match. Brazil vs Chile at 2.30am. My post stops here. I'll be heading to bed and getting up for the midnight match!!
Infact, the whole world watches World Cup.
Even the students, adults and who knows, lecturers and teachers?
Er Chin
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