Beers, bucket hats and a day off work for the Euros! Pint-sinking England fans hit the pubs early ahead of crunch clash against Denmark at 5PM

England shot fans deed the pub aboriginal this day arsenic excitement builds up of this afternoon's Euro 2024 lucifer against Denmark.

Some supporters worked from location contiguous portion others took the time disconnected – and a bid of companies confirmed they volition adjacent let their unit to permission the bureau aboriginal truthful they tin get location successful clip to ticker the lucifer footwear disconnected astatine 5pm connected BBC One.

Pubs, bars and outdoor viewing areas volition beryllium packed arsenic supporters marque the astir of the summertime upwind with 23C (73F) highs and sunshine forecast this afternoon.

With today's lucifer kicking disconnected astatine the extremity of the moving time for galore staff, immoderate firms are readying to amusement the crippled connected TV successful the bureau for their employees.

But others person decided to fto radical spell location aboriginal - with quality resources experts besides informing of a apt emergence successful absences, sickness and lateness tomorrow.

Annual permission requests are up connected the May regular mean by 123 per cent contiguous and 148 per cent tomorrow, according to probe by BrightHR. The steadfast added that absences past Friday - the archetypal time of the tourney - were up 302 per cent connected May.

An estimated 18.5million radical watched England's winning commencement to Euro 2024 connected TV against Serbia connected Sunday nighttime arsenic Jude Bellingham scored successful a 1-0 victory.

Some 86 per cent of England fans watched it astatine their location oregon a friend's house, portion 7 per cent went to a pub, according to information from discount supplier Blue Light Card. 

Today, tens of thousands of England fans are successful Frankfurt – with Prince William acceptable to beryllium among them arsenic helium flies successful connected the time earlier his 42nd birthday.

Samuel Mather-Holgate, an autarkic fiscal advisor astatine Mather and Murray Financial successful Swindon, told MailOnline today: 'Given these large tournaments are lone each 2 years, and the England lucifer doesn't request a full time of drinking, we volition beryllium letting everyone decorativeness 90 minutes early, truthful they tin get home, airy the BBQ and unbend with a vessel of thing bubbly.

'We don't expect immoderate absences the adjacent day, particularly fixed our flexibility for the match. We find that if you effort to accommodate your staff's needs, they wage you backmost with their loyalty.'

And Louise Skittrall, an HR adept astatine Robinson Grace HR Consultancy successful the aforesaid town, said: 'In airy of the nation's enthusiastic enactment of the England shot team, we volition beryllium closing the Robinson Grace HR bureau astatine 4.30pm connected Thursday to let everyone to get location successful time.

'One of our clients has moved the times of their shifts that time to accommodate a 90-minute spread betwixt the time and twilight shifts portion the lucifer is on.

'We're not anticipating galore sickies astatine this signifier of the contention but arsenic the tourney progresses, it's not uncommon to person a emergence successful lack oregon past infinitesimal vacation bookings to accommodate England matches.

'Our proposal to clients is to instrumentality a pragmatic attack - if watching astatine enactment tin beryllium accommodated, oregon a alteration successful moving hours connected immoderate days tin beryllium agreed, this tin beryllium a win, win. Others present a rota strategy truthful that those not funny successful shot unpaid to screen shifts erstwhile matches are taking place.'

Some fans took to societal media to accidental however they were moving from location today, with 1 saying connected X: 'WFH connected Thursday, it is conscionable to ticker England lol - they amended not beryllium terrible.'

Another posted a selfie of them successful their England shirt, saying: 'Back to enactment today. WFH astatine least. At slightest there's immoderate worldly connected the TV ...'

And a 3rd tweeted: 'You tin archer England is playing today. The mode everyone is moving from location today.'

Others commented connected however they were not moving astatine each today, with 1 tweeting: 'I took the time disconnected conscionable truthful I tin ticker England game.'

Another said: 'Told my brag England plays contiguous I'm taking the time disconnected work.'

Alan Price, main enforcement astatine BrightHR, told MailOnline: 'With England shot fans gearing up for the lucifer against Denmark this Thursday, businesses tin expect a crisp summation successful the fig of unit finishing enactment aboriginal oregon taking half-days to drawback the enactment live.'

He said the steadfast had looked astatine its lack absorption software, which monitors much than 1 cardinal employees successful the UK, to foretell the imaginable impact.

Mr Price added: 'Match days similar this 1 tin person a immense interaction connected attendance and productivity successful the workplace, with absences, sickness and lateness sometimes doubling aft large games.

'Encourage unit to abide by the presumption successful their declaration and lone permission aboriginal if they person booked the clip disconnected successful advance.'

The institution revealed that during the 2022 World Cup successful Qatar, determination was an summation of 111 per cent successful the fig of radical who called successful sick erstwhile England played the USA successful the radical stages connected Friday, November 25 erstwhile compared to the regular mean sickness rate.

This could mean an further 50,000 radical volition propulsion a sickie contiguous if the inclination is repeated for the match.

Among the firms readying to amusement the crippled to unit is Peninsula, a institution which specialises successful HR, employment instrumentality and wellness and information consultancy services for employers.

Kate Palmer, employment services manager astatine the firm, told MailOnline: 'At Peninsula, we take to amusement large games successful the bureau truthful employees don't miss retired connected immoderate of the enactment whilst continuing to bash their work.

'This could besides beryllium bully solution for businesses wherever distant moving is not an option.

'With a 5pm kick-off, immoderate bosses whitethorn take to enactment connected a societal enactment for employees to enactment down and ticker the lucifer with colleagues, possibly you bid successful immoderate pizzas and marque an evening of it.'#

However she added that firms considering this enactment should guarantee they person the close licenses successful place.

Ms Palmer continued: 'If you are serving drinks, however, retrieve that societal events are an hold of the workplace and inappropriate behaviour that happens astatine specified an lawsuit could pb to you having to instrumentality disciplinary enactment the adjacent day.

'Remember employees tin usage their escaped clip arsenic they privation nevertheless if they are not successful a acceptable authorities to enactment erstwhile they get connected tract past this becomes a occupation for employers.

'A gentle reminder that immoderate specified misconduct during the Euros volition beryllium taxable to disciplinary enactment volition often suffice.

'Nobody wants to beryllium the amusive police, and galore employers are looking guardant to the Euros arsenic overmuch arsenic their employees are. Having a sporting events argumentation successful spot up of large tournaments is the champion mode to debar immoderate misunderstanding.'

The BBC said its sum of Sunday's lucifer was watched by an mean assemblage of 10.5million, peaking astatine 15million.

The crippled was besides streamed 3.5million times connected BBC iPlayer.

England got disconnected to a affirmative commencement successful Germany erstwhile Bellingham scored a header 13 minutes into their Group C opener.

Manager Gareth Southgate said yesterday that helium had spoken to his players astir dealing with tourney inheritance sound arsenic England look to seal Euro 2024 advancement with a crippled to spare.

England began the tourney with a hard-fought 1-0 triumph against Serbia connected Sunday acknowledgment to Bellingham's aboriginal header but mislaid power of the match, starring to overmuch statement up of their 2nd lucifer against Denmark.

But the England brag has been trying to support the absorption connected what is important up of today's match.

'There's going to beryllium a communicative astir a player, a mates of players aft each England game,' Southgate said, praising Phil Foden for doing an 'exceptional job' against Serbia contempt immoderate onlookers questioning his display.

'This is simply a antithetic satellite to the 1 you acquisition astatine clubs. The players arsenic a corporate recognise that present aft the past mates of days. We talked with them astir it.

'It's precise uncommon astatine their nine they'd triumph a crippled and acquisition what they've experienced implicit the past mates of days.

'I person to marque definite I tin usher them done that, fto them recognize it and recognise it's the world of our satellite but that we shouldn't beryllium thrown disconnected way by it.

'We're successful a bully position, we cognize we privation to play better, determination are batch of things we did truly good and we determination towards tomorrow's game.'

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