"March Madness" Productivity Dip Goes Unnoticed

U.S. of A. – For the third year in a row, corporations across America either didn’t notice a decline, or turned a blind eye to a loss of productivity during the NCAA’s “March Madness.”

A staffing firm (that never reads resumes before contacting workers for non-existent jobs) conducted a poll that reported these important results.  Of the workers surveyed, only 16% said their offices prohibited gambling pools and another 37% had no idea whether their office had any policies about anything whatsoever, but were pretty sure they maybe slept through some H.R. presentation while hungover about sexual harassment. Over half of workers polled did not know if their office had a “pool,” but wished they did as they don’t get enough exercise lately from sitting behind their desks constantly updating their Facebook statuses.  

Interesting.  Back in the day when we were employed, we always noticed when others were merely “white-collar check collectors,” so we asked an employment industry analyst from behemoth.com for comment.  He told us, “People are too busy watching for the axe to fall on their own heads these days to give a crap about what any of their coworkers’ activities are.  Ironically, while an unprecedented amount of Americans were expected to tune in to watch ‘March Madness 2011’ there are also an unprecedented amount of Americans out of work, which kind of makes polls about tracking loss of productivity in the workplace an example of a drop in productivity in itself.”