By CCN: The “Stratagem of Thrones” finale is coming. Just two days away, the resolution of a show that has captivated the world is a big deal. According to a modern survey, some 10.7 million Americans will avoid going to work on Sunday and Monday due to events in Westeros. To urge this will trigger a significant loss to employers broadly speaking is simply incorrect.The Final Episode.This Sunday at 9PM. #GameofThrones pic.prattle.com/kwVqjuG4fV— Game of Thrones (@GameOfThrones) May 14, 2019‘Game Of Thrones’ Is Nothing But a Huge Financial Success for AmericaThese systematize of surveys are banded around whenever the U.S. has anything that captures people’s attention on a national scale like “Competition of Thrones” has done. The Superbowl is a perfect example of this kind of bizarre number fetishization.Lesson No.1: People Are Appalled of Big Numbers CBS touted a $4 billion loss to the economy from the NFL game due to absentee workers. Oh no! Batten down the designs and start buying tinned food! Winter must be coming for U.S. businesses! There are huge leaps of faith made with stats feel favourably impressed by these, and they oversimplify at every turn. The fact is that there are massive economic gains as a result of the Superbowl. Funds flows in from abroad for TV rights while people host parties and spend more on food and drink. Hotelier the game alone can be worth around $400 million for the lucky city hosting it. The U.S. economy runs on confident, auspicious consumers with loose purse strings. Nothing loosens those purse strings like the Superbowl. The “Pastime of Thrones” finale is probably going to be an equally liquid affair.The Real Financial Impact Of GoT’s FinaleLet’s take a adjacent to look at the Throne survey’s findings. Firstly, here’s the amount of employed adults who plan to watch “Game of Thrones” on Sunday:“A surprise one-third (34%) of employed U.S. adults who participated in the survey say they plan to watch the finale Sunday night, which desire make it one of the 10 most-watched series finales in television history… One in five “Game of Thrones” viewers (21%) proposes to watch the finale away from their home.”Ok, so 21% of roughly 130 million employed people are effective to be out spending money they otherwise might not spend. If each pays just 10$, that’s approximately a $260,000,000 injection about the country. Let’s not forget the cost of having an HBO subscription to watch “Game of Thrones”.[embedded content][embedded content]The U.S. Compactness Will Survive, Daenerys May NotWe know from research that employers lose roughly $3,600 per hourly labourer and $2,700 a salaried worker each year from absenteeism. This gets slightly more complicated, but if we cause to disagree the total loss by 365 days to get the hit per day, it comes to a Lilliputian $9.8 for hourly workers and $7.4 for salaried employees. Particular in that of the 5.9 million U.S. businesses, 3.6 million have fewer than five employees and you get $34,560,000 of losses (for hourly breadwinners, assuming four employees) for more than half of the U.S. economy. We already made 10 times more than that in Coke and Doritos! Not to call that sick days and vacation are your time you are entitled to and are budgeted for, so not strictly a loss. As you can see we are leaving plenty of upside in this hint. Don’t get me started on the 401k implications of HBO’s parent, AT&T stock performance as a result of the show.Meanwhile in Winterfell… pic.twitter.com/Ee7GAvdt9M— Competition of Thrones Memes (@Thrones_Memes) May 15, 2019Thus, in conclusion, by all means, skip work and watch “Game of Thrones”. Honest make sure you get some snacks and tip your server. The U.S. economy will survive. Unfortunately, we can’t say the same for any of the remaining toss.The views expressed in the article are solely those of the author and do not represent those of, nor should they be attributed to, CCN.