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A staffing crisis resulting from a wave of employees calling in sick to catch the new Stars Wars movie was more of a phantom menace than a blow to worker productivity.
Some agency executives were concerned that staffers might take a day off last week to see the film. Atlanta’s Headline Group even proclaimed “a cultural holiday” and bought its employees tickets to the May 19 premiere.
But few agencies contacted last week said there were many empty desks.
“The people you’d .


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