With the beginning of the NFL football season just a few weeks away, it’s no surprise that the topic of worker productivity and fantasy football is on the front burner again. According to the Indianapolis Business Journal (and home to the Colts, arguably some of the most ardent football fans), 37 million people spend at least 1 hour a week managing their teams, costing employers on average of $1.1 billion dollars a week in lost productivity during the football season.

This tends to put companies in a quandary: do they monitor and crackdown on such activity in hopes of increasing productivity while at the same time affecting employee morale? Or do they sit idly by while their employees spend hours on end managing and carrying on conversations about the merits of trading a particular player? There does not appear to be any clear answer to this common situation, but as long as the work gets done and the employees get to check their rosters, it appears to be a compromise by company and employee can live with during the football season.