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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