As World Cup fever builds ahead of Monday night’s match, companies are scrambling to decide how they will cope the following day.
Staff hoping to stay up late during England’s match with Mexico, due to kick off at 1am BST, will want to know what their options are.
While some industries, such as manufacturing and retail, will be less able to provide flexibility, others are offering bleary-eyed fans a later start so they can catch up on sleep.
Joshua Elash, who runs London-based MT Finance Group, allows his staff to start work at 11:00.
“It wasn’t a dilemma at all. It was as simple as a business could get,” he says.
“Everyone in this company works in an office. We don’t actually have a work from home policy here.
“We’re a financial services company, so we think it’s important and critical that everyone is on board, communicating and working together in real time.
“So yes, under normal circumstances all 125 of them would be here in the office at 08:45 or 09:00 on Monday morning. But this definitely won’t happen this Monday.”
Joshua says he and the other senior managers will be monitoring the game and says that if he feels like lying, it’s only fair to extend it to the rest of the team.
“It’s good for morale,” he says, adding that it’s worth it even if Monday isn’t a particularly productive day overall.
“Some things are more important than, you know, a day’s income,” he adds.