OFFICE ZOMBIES World Cup Fever Decimates Productivity

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Posted: 27 Jun 2010 | 6:00 am

Here's another on our growing island urban dictionary with Office Zombie. No this isn't the Night of the Living Dead or another installment of the The Twilight franchise; it's the 2010 World Cup fever.

Fans all over Thailand will stay up nightly for over a month as time differences with South Africa will see them burning the midnight oil and arriving to work in a state of catatonic exhaustion.

Fatigue is expected to set in well in advance of the finals, as coffee sales look to skyrocket and sick days multiply faster than Justin Bieber lookalikes.

Come mid July things will be back for normal but for businesses looking for alert office staff, you might as well accept the inevitable for the time being.

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