Bosses have to decide whether to get behind the controversial World Cup.
Business reporter, BBC NewsThe England men's football team are taking on Iran at about the time staff would normally be tucking into their sandwiches. And on Friday Wales will play in their first World Cup game since 1958, at an even more disruptive 10:00.
Do you go for World Cup wall charts in the office, lunchtime beers and matches on a giant screen? A total ban? Or something in-between?But this is the first men's World Cup of the work-from-home era, so there's another easy way to deal with the games that happen in office hours: let staff work from home that day.
Just over a quarter of fans said that their employer will show the matches live, while one in five will allow them to watch the football elsewhere.Some businesses are viewing the World Cup not as an inconvenience that needs to be managed, but as an opportunity. They are using it as a chance to have some fun in the office, and bond with colleagues and maybe clients over a shared love of "the beautiful game".
"It's important to work hard and play hard," says the firm's founder and director Dom Pope. "Why not celebrate?Nothing says World Cup fever like a cardboard Gareth Southgate - in the offices of Own Your Space
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