March Madness Mystery Cache
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The brackets for the NCAA men's basketball championship tournament
were picked Sunday, and although the games don't begin until
Tuesday, the annual march of not doing much work at work begins
Monday when workers will return to work with bracket printouts in
hand to join office pools to see if they can pick which of 64 teams
will win the tournament. The global outplacement consultancy firm
Challenger, Gray & Christmas estimates that workers distracted
by March Madness could cost employers as much as $1.8 billion in
unproductive wages during the first week of the tournament, which
ends April 5 with the championship game. And that loss is based on
only 20 minutes of wasted time per day. That probably only includes
a few peeks at scores throughout the day. The real time suck is in
watching games stream live on the Internet, a task that could
decrease Internet speeds at work. The service was first launched in
2003. Approximately 20,000 viewers purchased March Madness on
Demand, as the video service is called, in 2005, and last year saw
8.6 million total hours of streamed audio and video during the
tournament. Last year the Web streaming service attracted 7.52
million unique visitors, up 75% from 4.92 million in 2008. CBS
Sports also reported last year that there were 2.77 million clicks
on the "Boss Button," which allows viewers to watch the games from
work but quickly pull up a fake spreadsheet if someone walks by
their computer. During the first two days of the tournament, about
half of the 32 games are played during business hours. West Coast
fans can watch games as early as 9 a.m. The drop in worker output
lessens as the tournament moves beyond the first two rounds because
few games are played during office hours.
Here is something to work on between the games.
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