PROVO — Trying to get work done during the opening days of March Madness can be challenging in many workplaces.
Millions of preoccupied workers could cost their employers nearly $4 billion in lost productivity in the opening week of the annual men’s college basketball tournament, warned global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
Some companies, however, are embracing the madness and using it as a way to boost morale and inject added enthusiasm into their workforce.
Alaina Wood, 32, is a recreational soccer player who knew very little about college hoops seven years ago when she started working at NuSkin Enterprises.