Lost Productivity Due to Fantasy Football, - New Study claims $9.2 Billion a year Options

[David Dodds]

Lost Productivity Due to Fantasy Football

CHICAGO, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- Fantasy football will cost U.S. employers $9.2 billion in lost work time this season, a private research group said.

Business researchers Challenger, Gray & Christmas said Monday the 17-week National Football League schedule will subtract 1.19 hours of productivity per week from about 17 million Americans who participate.

Using salaries information supplied by the Fantasy Sports Association, the average fantasy footballer earns $80,000 per year with 70 percent of the participants earning between $50,000 and $149,000.

That amounts to an average loss of $45.22 per week per player, Challenger, Gray & Christmas said.

"Most employers understand that not every minute of the day is dedicated to work. In fact, in today's 24-7 global economy, it is likely that work bleeds into our personal lives," said Chief Executive Officer John Challenger.

Clearly, 17 million workers sacked is unlikely, but Challenger advocated for leaving well enough alone.

"Managers should only crack down on those whose work is clearly suffering from the added distraction. An across-the-board ban on all fantasy football or sports Web sites could backfire in the form of reduced morale and loyalty," he said.

[David Dodds]

I think this estimate is pretty lame actually. Who only spends 1.19 work hours on their lineups and trades? Trades need to be massaged...That's usually 20 emails at least. And most of us also have playoff challenges, the NFL draft, etc to chew up more than just 17 weeks.

Maybe we can get the government to pay Footballguys a stipend to release less content. Oh to dream...

[Otis]

I honestly spent most of my day today catching up on fantasy football. I did near zero work.

[bentley]

The problem with a study like this is that they assume that people would spend their time doing something productive if there wasn't fantasy football. It's been my experience that people inclined to #### off are going to #### off.

[SharkBait]

The problem with a study like this is that they assume that people would spend their time doing something productive if there wasn't fantasy football. It's been my experience that people inclined to #### off are going to #### off.

I'm sure the numbers for porn would shame the national debt.

[bostonfred]

Website owner thumbs nose at government study, demands ransom for hostage workforce

[SHIZNITTTT]

So does that make the owners of this website RICH?!?

[Moe Green]

1.9 hrs a week? Yeah, right.

[Ozymandias]

They are surveying all those guppies.

It is a well known fact that the average FBGer earns in excess of $250,000 a year, and spends about 10 working hours a week ranking his players according to VBD plus the instinctive gut feel he has developed by reading all the articles published on the FBG site. In addition to drafting, he is massaging his roster, offering, rejecting and accepting trades, and choosing a starting lineup.

The true cost is in the tens of billions, for FBGers alone.

This post has been edited by Ozymandias: Aug 19 2008, 11:03 PM

[David Dodds]

They are surveying all those guppies.

It is a well known fact that the average FBGer earns in excess of $250,000 a year, and spends about 10 working hours a week ranking his players according to VBD plus the instinctive gut feel he has developed by reading all the articles published on the FBG site. In addition to drafting, he is massaging his roster, offering, rejecting and accepting trades, and choosing a starting lineup.

The true cost is in the tens of billions, for FBGers alone.

Yes that's what I think. I remember my goverment job the last year before quitting to do this fulltime. I was spending about 10-20% of my time doing real work. During this year I won 3 performance awards and got a huge promotion. It really was quite sad to think my employers thought I was the hardest working person there. Well it was the government so who knows...maybe I was.

[Judge Smails]

I've got the over...

[Jayrod]

The problem with a study like this is that they assume that people would spend their time doing something productive if there wasn't fantasy football. It's been my experience that people inclined to #### off are going to #### off.

For me, before I found fantasy football, there was online spades and hearts.

[Fennis]

Study Finds Working At Work Improves Productivity

[Sweeper]

Yea, something is not kosher here. Last year's article estimated employers lost like $6 billion per week.

[snogger]

[eoMMan]

There should be a study on how much productivity is lost when people poo at work. Some people (not that I have a problem with it) spend a looooooooooooooooong time in the stall.

[belljr]

Study Finds Working At Work Improves Productivity

I know I get more done at home

1) I don't have random annoyances like (people talking too loud, getting asked questions that should not be coming to me but a person decides to skip the channels and come straight to me.

2) I feel like I need to "prove" that working at home , I get my work done

[spOOfy]

Study Finds Working At Work Improves Productivity

I know I get more done at home

1) I don't have random annoyances like (people talking too loud, getting asked questions that should not be coming to me but a person decides to skip the channels and come straight to me.

2) I feel like I need to "prove" that working at home , I get my work done

When I'm at work, I spend most of my day on here. When I'm at home, I rarely visit.

[Paper Lions]

I don't think they've included the FFA in that study.

[Mark Wimer]

I know that I spend at least 60 hours a week on fantasy football (averaged out over the year, more inseason), doing little else work-wise year round...

Oh wait, I work here...

[Judge Smails]

I know that I spend at least 60 hours a week on fantasy football (averaged out over the year, more inseason), doing little else work-wise year round...

Oh wait, I work here...

slacker

[Joe Bryant]

I don't think they've included the FFA in that study.

I'm thinking you're right, Paper Lions.

J

[Da Guru]

I was at a meeting last year, people thought I was taking notes on my laptop, I actually was scouring the waiver wire for my drop and adds that week.

[Hammered Finz]

the irony of reading this article, at work, on this site...

[Shrek]

I would say it's actually about eleventy billion per second.

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These people easily make up for 3/4 of that estimate considering all FBGs make 6 figures. The other 1/4th is all of the peons below us making entry level salaries.

[slayer666]

1.9 hrs a week? Yeah, right.

Agreed. Sounds very conservative.

[Shrek]

Don't forget that stories like this also qualify as work time being devoted to fantasy football, and they go toward the bottom line as well. It's a viscious cycle.

[jdoggydogg]

Study Finds Working At Work Improves Productivity

WASHINGTON, DC—According to a groundbreaking new study by the Department of Labor, working—the physical act of engaging in a productive job-related activity—may greatly increase the amount of work accomplished during the workday, especially when compared with the more common practices of wasting time and not working.
Enlarge Image American worker

"Our findings are astounding: By simply sitting down and doing work, employees can dramatically increase their output of goods and services," said Deputy Undersecretary of Labor Charlotte Ponticelli, who authored the report. "In fact, 'working' may revolutionize the way people work."

Perhaps even more shocking, the study reveals that not working significantly decreases worker productivity, sometimes even resulting in no work getting done at all. Similar findings were reported in the areas of avoiding work, putting off work, complaining about work instead of actually working, pretending to work, and ####### around.

"####### around is in fact detrimental to the work process," the study reads in part.

To conduct the study, researchers split the staff of a Washington-based insurance company into two groups and assigned each group a series of tasks to be completed by the end of the day. The control group engaged in normal workplace activities, such as standing around and talking, staring vacantly at the computer screen, and surfing the Internet. The other group was instructed to do work and complete its given tasks. Incredibly, the group that did not do any work failed to get any work done, while the group that did do work finished all the work.

The researchers believe that these lessons could possibly be applied to fields outside the insurance industry.

"Based on the study, we can safely conclude that if an employee's job is to process expense reports, doing a crossword puzzle will result in the successful completion of that task zero times out of 100, while processing expense reports will result in the successful completion of that task 100 times out of 100," head researcher Richard Schoemberg said.

Jon Halper, a Baltimore-area small-business owner, claims that people used to laugh whenever he told them that the key to worker productivity was not checking friends' MySpace pages for hours at a time, but rather working.

"After this study, I feel vindicated," said Halper, who believes working is so important that for years he has required all his employees to work throughout the day. "Hopefully, more companies will embrace the idea that employees working on things that they are supposed to do is practically essential."

A similar study conducted at Harvard University over a period of three years attempted to determine conclusively whether working was more productive than various different subsets of not working. The results showed across the board that working is 100 percent more productive than listening to music and checking e-mails, 100 percent more productive than meandering around the office socializing with coworkers, 100 percent more productive than playing online Sudoku, 100 percent more productive than watching YouTube videos of nostalgic childhood television programming, 100 percent more productive than reading celebrity-gossip blogs while chatting with friends on Instant Messenger, 100 percent more productive than napping, and 98.2 percent more productive than not showing up to work.

Despite the staggering new findings, many American workers say that they still do not feel comfortable working on the job.

"I love coming into work every day," Arlington, VA sales manager Bryce Davidson said. "I get to have great conversations with [office receptionist] Sandy, challenge myself with Yahoo! TextTwist, and still have time to set my fantasy-football roster. Why would I want to ruin work by working?"

[Delusions Of Ade...]

Yeah. Like FBGs would spend the time working if there was no FF.