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March 19, 2004
Workplace Madness: "That innocent office college basketball pool eats into U.S. workplace productivity to the tune of 100 million hours, at a potential cost of $1.5 billion for the duration of the tournament." But it's good for morale.
posted by kirkaracha to basketball at 08:42 AM - 6 comments
I don't buy any of these "Activity X hurts American workplace productivity by [ridiculous amount of money]." Even if the person/organization doing the figures is not hopelessly biased, the numbers they're coming up with are based on really soft information, because it's not something that's really quantifiable. So what if x number of hours are spent by Americans per year working on betting pools? Who's to say they wouldn't have wasted the time on something else if there were no pools?
posted by deadcowdan at 11:09 AM on March 19, 2004
Yeah, anytime my boss is out of town (like this week) nobody really gets much of anything done anyways. Dicking around on sports sites == dicking around doing anything else.
posted by Ufez Jones at 02:29 PM on March 19, 2004
Especially when the boss is out of town, in Vegas, with buddies, to do up the first two rounds of the tourney.
posted by pivo at 03:01 PM on March 19, 2004
pivo, did he take your bets along?
posted by billsaysthis at 09:21 PM on March 19, 2004
Well, yeah. benefit of being the bosses cousin I guess :) Though at this point the bigger favor would have been not to.
posted by pivo at 09:46 PM on March 19, 2004
No more or less productivity-eating than the Internet itself, I would venture to guess.