Productivity and the FIFA World Cup!

Currently, many articles are being published about the anticipated loss of productivity that is expected from matches followed, “and the after effects to be experienced”, by employees during the FIFA World Cup 2010. I would like to add another perspective on this matter. South Africa is a nation with many successes and has much to be proud about. Yet, we have a culture of pessimism that almost always focuses on the negative and what we have not done correctly, or rather, what we have not achieved yet!

I say that the staging and hosting of this event is an opportunity for us to take some much deserved time-out from the political bickering, office politics and daily stresses to “chillax” a little and to celebrate, with our international visitors, the truly wonderfulness of all it is we have; the beautiful lands, sky, stadia, peoples and history that are all uniquely South African.

Think about it for a minute. What other developing country has what we have, achieved what we have, and can bask in the wonderfulness of what it is that we have to share! The down time from this World Cup event will be returned many times over in the future. It will be in the form of employees who are renewed in energy, mind and spirit, and that will want to reengage, and seek new ways of cooperation with one another.