Apparently, unless you actually work for an NFL team, sitting at your desk at work and sifting through the waiver wires, looking at scouting reports, and proposing trades are not good uses of your time. According to Challenger, Gray & Christmas — an outplacement & career transitioning firm — fantasy football might actually cost employers $13 billion in lost productivity.
From the Chicago Tribune’s article:
The firm came to its figure using average hourly earnings of workers on private nonfarm payrolls ($24.45) and the estimated number of employed fantasy sports participants (18.3 million, assuming a 59 percent employment rate among the 31 million working-age Americans who participate in fantasy sports). Assuming, conservatively, that each employed participant spends two hours a week on fantasy sports while on the job, it works out to $13.4 billion over the course of the 15-week fantasy football schedule.”
I would argue against the firm’s findings, but it probably took me an extra five minutes to write this post because all of my fantasy football commissioners are sending me invitations to join their leagues and I still haven’t thought of my witty team names yet. Though “Challenger, Gray & Christmas” is sounding pretty good right now, in an obscure, mysterious kind of way.
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