Whether Challenger, Gray and Christmas is telling the truth about its study results that there will be $1.7 billion worth of lost employee productivity or not, it's inevitable that there will be NCAA fanatics who will use more time checking out the latest game outcomes, updating their NCAA brackets or watch online videos from the office computer.
So why should employers not worry about the decreased productivity caused by March Madness? The same consulting firm suggested that there are ways to turn this seemingly negative impact on a worker's productivity to a positive one. How? Letting employees succumb to March Madness can boost employee morale. This can be accomplished through the following:
- employers should consider allowing the organization of company activities that will let employees enjoy this event
- employers might want to offer flexible working schedules to let employees enjoy the games and go back to work afterwards
This is justifying video snacking, isn't it? I'm not saying that if you see your employees watching NCAA games during work time, you should just watch with them, but the fuss about March Madness making productivity slow down doesn't seem too much of a big deal since many know that employees don't really spend even 80% of their time on purely work. Why worry about it?
image credits to igavlick
» A Lesson We Can Learn From March Madness from CustomersAreAlways
Like many basketball fans across the country, I’ve been tuned into “March Madness” the past couple weeks - which is not very productive, but is boosting my morale... ;) This is the month of the big college basketball tournaments... [Read More]
Tracked on: April 6, 2008 7:17 PM | Permalink to Trackback