Your boss probably doesn't have a problem with your March Madness obsession bleeding into work, so long as it doesn't result in a raid from anti-vice authorities.
A new survey by OfficeTeam, a division of Robert Half, an employment staffing firm, finds that most managers don't feel threatened by March Madness activities, including employees watching games or engaging in pools that don't involve money. The survey unfortunately didn't ask what managers thought about pools with a payout.
Still, very few managers believe the NCAA tournament is a threat to employee morale. Presumably, the contrast between watching a buzzer-beating game at lunch and returning to the monotony of your job could be a problem, but most managers don't see it that way.
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Only 9 percent said that they view activities related to March Madness negatively in terms of morale. The majority (59 percent), say that such activities have no impact on way or the other on it. 32 percent of managers viewed the addition of March Madness-related activities in the office positively, likely because they see it as an opportunity for workers to bond and enjoy the workplace.
Similarly, few believed that Madness activities reduce productivity. 63 percent said that it has no impact, while 13 percent said it had a somewhat negative impact, and 1 percent said it had a very negative impact.
Meanwhile, 17 percent said that Madness has a somewhat positive impact on productivity and 5 percent said it had a very positive impact.
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