from Challenger Gray and Christmas
In a strange NFL season with postponed games, fan-less stadiums, COVID cases, and a Tampa Bay Buccaneers Championship, the Bucs will host the Kansas City Chiefs at their own stadium on February 7th. The distraction of the big game is likely more than welcome to hundreds of millions of Americans, football fans or not, according to one workplace authority. Nearly 9 million fewer Americans have jobs now than during the Super Bowl last year. Record numbers are filing initial unemployment claims every week, and 2.4 million more people want jobs now versus this time last year. This is on top of the extreme pandemic fatigue and subsequent burnout, especially for employed people who are now caring for parents and children full time. The mental strain on Americans is overwhelming, said Andrew Challenger, Senior Vice President of global outplacement and business and executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc.