The series finale ofGame of Thronesis upon us , and employer across the U.S. should be very afraid . “ Absence is amount , ” a Modern survey from The Workforce Institute at Kronos , deal by The Harris Poll , found that the final episode premiering this Sunday , May 19 , is probable to make major Monday workplace conflicts .
According to the survey — which canvass the resultant role of 1090 workings adults who took part in an online crown alongside U.S. Census Data and extrapolated its final reckoning from there — the finale ofGame of Thronescould be as disastrous to America ’s workplaces on Monday morn as it will probably be to some of your favorite character . allot to the opinion poll :
While that viewership approximation is in all probability gamey ( season 8 ’s penultimate installment , " The Bells , " is the serial publication ’s most - watched so far , with18.4 millionviewers ) , there ’s no denying thatGame of Thrones ’s finale will touch some of the most - watchedseries finalesof all fourth dimension .
Based on the view ’s predictions , or so 10.7 million Americans are already planning to take the solar day off from body of work completely while 2.9 million are planning to show up late . evidently , this is not a unexampled evolution : The Workforce Institute at Kronos reports thatGame of Thronesseason 8 has already had a negatively charged impact on workplace productiveness . They estimate that 4.4 million employee have already " missed work specifically to stream reruns to refresh their store on cardinal plotlines or see up on miss episodes . "
Not all of the doubtfulness ask were super serious , though . When asked about whichGame of Thronescharacter they ’d most like to have as a managing director , one in four respondents say Jon Snow ( take in the true heritor to the Iron Throne the top spot ) , with Tyrion Lannister occur in second followed by Daenerys Targaryen ( perhaps unsurprisingly , the survey was conducted online between May 7 and May 9 — before " The Vanessa Stephen " happened ) . Amazingly , even Cersei Lannister got 2 percent of the ballot .
If “ Absence is Coming ” proves anything , it ’s that employers might make out comfortably if they just declared Monday a home daytime of lamentation and throw everyone the day off .
