It’s already well known that people check their March Madness brackets while at work — which costs companies billions, thanks to distracted employees.
However, a new survey shows just how mad Americans are about the Madness: 37% say they plan to call out sick or otherwise skip work just to watch their favorite teams in action.
In the One Poll survey of 2,000 people, 46% admit that the NCAA basketball tournament makes them less productive, with nearly as many respondents, 43%, cop to watching games when they’re supposed to be on the clock.
Forty-eight percent of those polled say the annual tourney beats the Super Bowl for them, and another recent study bears that out: $10 billion will be bet this year, some 30% more than football’s big game.
Forty percent of those in the One Poll survey say they’ve joined NCAA bracket pools at work — and the average respondent has entered three of them this year.
For the record, the odds of having a perfect bracket by the time March Madness ends are a staggering one in 9.2 quintillion.
Survey questions, methodology and results have not been verified or endorsed by ABC News or The Walt Disney Company.