NCAA Bracket Hours Outnumber Work Hours
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010A study released earlier this morning by the U.S. Department of Labor revealed that from Wednesday, March 17th to Tuesday, March 22nd, the total hours spent filling out and monitoring progress of NCAA Tournament brackets in the workplace outpaced the actual hours of work. According to the study, approximately 752 million man-hours of work were dedicated to NCAA pools, while a total of 62 hours were dedicated to actual work duties during the same time period. ”While the numbers may seem shocking out of context,” said researcher Richard Lafever, who oversaw the study, “they’re really nothing to be worried about. We see the same thing every year: worker productivity always takes a nosedive during the first week of March Madness. What’s shocking about this year is that Kansas didn’t even make it into the Sweet 16. If they had won out, I’d be a lock for the Xbox 360, but instead I have to rely on Kentucky beating red-hot Cornell in order to even have a prayer of beating Jim in Finance.”