It seems it's also affected our work habits. At least that's the warning this week from an employee Internet management software company. Websense Inc., a San Diego-based public company that counts nearly half of the Fortune 500 as its clients, did. As commercial as they seem, Websense's findings have some truth. During the NCAA tournaments, sports sites traditionally report increased traffic from its at-work demographic.
People get more drawn into it.
Instead of accessing a site to say, simply check the weather, tournament followers tend to spend more time accessing a sports site's bandwidth-hogging applications, Carrington said. This, in turn, causes computer network problems. The Society for Human Resource Management in Alexandria, Va., had other findings in a 1999 survey about gambling in the workplace. Thirteen percent of the respondents said the pools had a positive effect on productivity. It puts people in a good mood and promotes team spirit.