Coming up next - Is your coffee break too long?

Let me get this straight. Americans take less vacation time, far less vacation time, than most other industrial countries. American productivity is at all time highs.

And we're worried about the threat of office pools?

Link: Kansas City Star | 03/16/2006 | Office madness.

The "madness" is these consultants -- no doubt in the employ of corporate America -- spreading this fiction about a rampant shortfall in productivity during NCAA games.

I predict, though of course there is no way to measure this, that there will be a much greater falloff in productivity tomorrow, a St. Patrick's Day that spills over into  a weekend.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go "test" the March Madness On Demand at NCAASports.com ...