Championship NCAA Basketball: How Does The March Madness For Offices

Championship NCAA Basketball: How Does The March Madness For Offices: Your IT department does not know what you're watching March Madness, and they do not like.

The study Modis, computer typesetting services for more than two-thirds of the 500 IT professionals surveyed said they have taken steps to either reduce or block the work of content distribution over the non-annual NCAA men's Division I Basketball Championship or the "March Madness". Forty-two percent said that they are workers who tried to broadcast March Madness content.

This is not something that people who work in the hate basketball - they just like their corporate network to function properly. Peak stream during the NCAA tournament puts enormous pressure on the corporate network, which, according to the study, Modis, slow connection speed, and in 34 percent of cases, actually cause networks to crash.

According to the magazine Life Media, a tournament that started on Tuesday, is the only sporting event attributed to lost productivity. This is possible because, unlike the Super Bowl or World Series, NCAA tournament play during the hours of work, including the "brackets" or the place in Paris on the team that will win every game. Survey conducted by MSN found that 86 percent of respondents said that they spend part of their working days after the end of the tournament.

In its annual report on the impact of March Madness on productivity of workers, employment firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas said that according to one study, though unscientific, U.S. companies could lose $ 175 million in productivity declined during the first two days of the tournament only.

However, the report states that this estimate should be taken with a grain of salt large enough, and that the effect March Madness on the productivity of workers is likely to be small.

"The Internet Society may be slower, some workers do not respond to emails as quickly and lunch breaks may extend beyond the normal period. This is especially inconvenient cause headaches departmental information technology, human resources departments," Challenger, Gray & Christmas bed the report.

Other estimates are not so optimistic. MSN reports that, based on approximately 50 million Americans who participate in the basins of the Paris office in March Madness, working after the tournament will cost the company a total of $ 2 billion in 2012.

Of course, these dire predictions will probably not stop the staff to watch the games, and even jumping fully working. Earlier this month, Mashable reported on the application Facebook, in which Shaquille O'Neal "call" bosses basketball fans with an excuse invented to explain why they are not at work. The application allows users to select from a variety of excuses such as "docking", and some NSFW different greetings for your boss, including the "Playa" and "Honey Bunny".