{"id":56502,"date":"2026-07-17T11:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/56502\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T11:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:06:09","slug":"adidas-lenovo-among-companies-in-china-giving-workers-a-world-cup-final-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/56502\/","title":{"rendered":"Adidas, Lenovo among companies in China giving workers a World Cup final holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Several corporations in mainland China have announced a full day or a half day off for their employees next Monday so that they can enjoy the Fifa World Cup final to the fullest.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">European champions Spain will take on reigning champions Argentina at MetLife Stadium on Sunday afternoon to bring the 39-day tournament to a close.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A win for Luis de la Fuente\u2019s side will see the Spaniards adding to their previous title from 2010, while a victory for the world\u2019s top team and three-time champions will make Lionel Scaloni the first head coach ever to defend a World Cup.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Regardless of the results in New Jersey, Adidas, who is the apparel sponsor for both teams, appeared to be the biggest winner of the world\u2019s showpiece final, and they are sharing the joy with their employees, announcing on Thursday via a Weibo thread, \u201cOh no, there\u2019s no work next Monday\u201d, to entitle their staff to a post-final day off on Monday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cSpain will play Argentina in an \u2018Adidas derby\u2019 in the World Cup final, [and] in order to let our colleagues enjoy the match, all employees will be granted a one-day special day off, barring those who have important work meetings scheduled,\u201d read the statement.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lenovo employees have been given special passes to use during the World Cup. Photo: Handout\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/a53d031c-e989-413a-bcc3-a2dbddea2083_d76e3e80.jpg\" title=\"Lenovo employees have been given special passes to use during the World Cup. Photo: Handout\"\/>Lenovo employees have been given special passes to use during the World Cup. Photo: Handout<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The sports apparel brand also offered prize games for their employees to guess the correct scores for the final, and for the third-place play-off match between France and England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several corporations in mainland China have announced a full day or a half day off for their employees&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21254],"tags":[21290,303,89,44716,44714,851,22289,149,60,90,44717,36418,44713,36419,1488,156,44715],"class_list":["post-56502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-adidas","tag-adidas","tag-argentina","tag-china","tag-copa-america","tag-european-championships","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-fifa-world-cup-2026","tag-football","tag-france","tag-hong-kong","tag-lenovo-group","tag-metlife-stadium","tag-netease","tag-new-jersey","tag-qatar","tag-spain","tag-weibo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}