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The solar eclipse is costing millions of dollars to American companies

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The solar eclipse is costing millions of dollars to American companies

8-18-2017

The solar eclipse is costing millions of dollars to American companies

NEW YORK (Reuters) - US companies and employers are expected to lose $ 694 million on Monday by cutting the country's workforce by 20 minutes to follow the eclipse that will take about two and a half minutes, the US-based Challenger Gray & Christmas said Monday.

The Chicago-based vice president, Andy Challenger, said 20 minutes was a conservative estimate, noting that many people may takelonger to do their own telescopes or glasses or even take a holiday that day.

"Very few people will go out when there is a celestial phenomenon happening over their heads," he said.

Challenger estimated that the number of employees that day was about 87 million people. On the CyberManday or Monday Internet event, a Monday term that followed the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States, companies suffered losses of about $ 450 million for every 14 minutes I spent In shopping and not at work.

He explained that such events are likely to have a significant impact on small companies that when absent workers do not have enough coverage from their co-workers, especially in the current labor market, which is difficult to find skilled labor, adding, "When three or four people are absent from An office of 15 people becomes destructive. "

The United States is a total eclipse of the sun on Monday, 21 August 2017, when the total eclipse in the United States from the east coast of Oregon begins to leave the coast of the state of South Carolina.

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