Claim: America's addiction to fantasy sports could cost $36.7M/day

[matcom]

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Sure, fantasy football seems innocent at first.

You'll just take a few seconds from work to check on your team. A couple minutes, tops, spent scanning stats on Yahoo or the ESPN Web site. That's all you need. Maybe a few e-mails to guys in your fantasy league, asking if they want to trade linebackers. Maybe a quick note to a dear friend, pointing out that his quarterback just got planted in the turf like a tulip.

It will only take a moment. Your boss will never notice, right?

Perhaps your boss should.

America's addiction to fantasy sports could cost the nation's businesses $36.7 million daily, according to a rough estimate from executive search firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Fantasy leagues allow players to put together their own dream teams and track their performance week to week, sometimes for cash prizes, sometimes just for the love of the game.

Although Challenger admits its estimate is, at best, an educated guess, it touches on a very real, recurring issue for office managers. In an age when most employees have access to e-mail, instant messaging and the Internet at their desks, how much freedom to surf, chat and generally slack off online should a company allow?

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/09/21/BUGI18S4VN1.DTL

[GOPisEvil]

1. Fantasy football is nothing compared to my DU addiction.

:7

[pagerbear]

2. I wonder how much DUing at work costs?