Use of Office Pools April 25 2013 Definition In this survey the term office pools refers to gambling in the workplace including games competitions or other events Office pools can be linked to football games the Super Bowl the Oscars the NCAA basketball championship ID: 739749
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SHRM Survey Findings: The Use of Office Pools
April 25,
2013Slide2
Definition
In this survey, the term “office pools” refers to gambling in the workplace, including games, competitions or other events. Office pools can be linked to football games, the Super Bowl, the Oscars, the NCAA basketball championship
t
ournament, etc.
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Key Findings
Do organizations have a policy that addresses office
pools?
A majority of organizations (81%) indicated they do not have a written or unwritten policy that addresses office pools, an increase from 67% in 2010. In 2013 and 2010, 10% of organizations reported having a written policy addressing office pools. Only 8% of organizations reported having an unwritten policy in 2013, a decrease from 23% in 2010. What is included in policies addressing office pools? Most policies that address office pools include “prohibition of gambling that includes monetary exchange in the workplace” (70%), “disciplinary action (not including termination) for failure to comply with policy” (69%), and “prohibition of any form of gambling, including office pools
,” (66%). How often do organizations enforce these policies?
Of those organizations that currently have a written or unwritten policy in place, less than one-tenth (7%) have disciplined employees
for
noncompliance.Do organization prohibit employees from taking part in fantasy sports teams (e.g., fantasy football or fantasy baseball) in the workplace? Currently, only 15% of organizations prohibit employees from participating in fantasy sports teams in the workplace.Do office pools have a positive impact in the workplace? The top three areas that HR professionals perceived as positively affected by office pools were relationship building (70%), promoting team building (64%), and increasing employee engagement (54%).
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Key Findings (continued)
For which events do employees conduct office pools?
In 2013, the top two events that employees conducted office pools for were the Super Bowl (65%) and the
NCAA college basketball tournament (57%). Office pools for both of these events have increased since 2010, when 39% of organizations reported office pools for the Super Bowl and 36% for the NCAA college basketball tournament.Is there an increase in the number of employees who do not come to work the day after a major televised event? Results indicate that more male employees (16%) are absent from work the day after the Super Bowl compared with female employees (7%). The same pattern is observed the day after the NCAA college basketball and football tournaments, with 6% of male employees compared with 2% of female employees not coming to work.
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Does your organization have a written or unwritten (understood) policy addressing office pools?
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Does your organization have a written or unwritten (understood) policy addressing office pools?
Comparison
by organization staff size
Organizations with 2,500 or more employees are more likely than organizations with 1 to 500 employees to have a written policy addressing office pools.
Comparison
by organization staff size
2,500 to 24,999 employees (24%)
25,000 or more employees (44%)
>
1 to 99 employees (
5
%)
100 to 499 employees (6%)
Comparison
by organization sector
Publicly
owned for-profit organizations
are
more likely
than
privately owned for-profit organizations to have a written policy addressing office pools.Comparison by organization sectorPublicly owned for-profit organizations (21%)>Privately owned for-profit (6%)
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Note: Only statistically significant differences are shown.Slide7
Is your organization’s written or unwritten (understood) policy addressing office pools part of a gambling policy, or is it a
stand-alone policy
?
Note: n = 58. Only respondents whose organizations have a written or unwritten policy addressing office pools were asked this question. The Use of Office Pools ©SHRM 2013
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2013
(n = 50)
2010
(n = 78)
Prohibition of gambling that includes monetary exchange
70%
70%
Disciplinary action (not including termination) for failure to comply with policy
69%
72%
Prohibition of any form of gambling, including office
pools
66%
83%
Employment termination for failure to comply with
policy
63%
67%
A
definition of what gambling in the workplace means43%63% Prohibition of any form of gambling, excluding office pools39%7%Does your organization’s policy include the following aspects?Note: Only respondents whose organizations have a written or unwritten policy addressing office pools were asked this question. Percentages do not equal 100% due to multiple response options
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Note: Respondents
who answered “not sure” were excluded from this analysis. Only
respondents whose organizations
have a written or unwritten policy addressing office pools were asked this question. The asterisk (*) indicates the category was not included in the 2013 survey.In the past 12 months, has your organization disciplined employees for noncompliance with the office pools/gambling policy?
(n = 44)
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Does your organization prohibit employees from taking part in fantasy sports teams (e.g., fantasy football or fantasy baseball) in the workplace?
Note:
n =
294. Respondents who answered “not sure” were excluded from this analysis. The Use of Office Pools ©SHRM 201310Slide11
2013
(n = 337)
2010
(n = 150)
Super Bowl
39%
65%
NCAA
college
basketball tournament
36%
57%
Lottery jackpot
31%
31%
Fantasy
football
19%
*
Workplace baby pool (e.g.,
baby's gender, height, weight, birth day and hour)18%23%NCAA college football championship14%
*
Fantasy
basketball
6%
*
Golf tournament (e.g., the Masters or
U.S.
Open)
3%
4%
The Motion Picture Academy of America Awards (also known as the Oscars)
2%
2%
Fantasy or
roto
-baseball
1%
*
Other
5%
7%
For
which of the following events do employees at your organization organize an office pool
?
Note
:
Respondents who answered “not sure” were excluded from this analysis. Percentages do not equal 100% due to multiple response options. An asterisk (*) indicates the category was not included in the 2010 survey.
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Positive impact
Negative impact
No
impact
Relationship
b
uilding
(n = 315)70%
5%
25%
Team
b
uilding
(n = 319)
64%
5%
31%
Employee
e
ngagement (n = 317)
54%9%37% Manager/employee relationships (n = 318)40%16%45% Job satisfaction (n = 319)39%
5%
56%
Corporate
c
ulture
m
anagement
(n = 315)
33%
19%
48%
Supervisory
r
elationships
(n = 318)
23%
18%
59%
Employee
r
ecognition
(n = 319)
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Increases
Stays the same
Decreases
Super
Bowl
(n = 282)
15%
78%
7%
NCAA
c
ollege
basketball tournament
(
n = 276)
6%
91%
3%
NCAA college football championship (n = 275)5%92%3% The Motion Picture Academy of America Awards (also known as the Oscars) (n = 275)1%97%
2%
Generally speaking, after the major televised events listed below, would you say the number of employees who do not report for work the next day increases, stays the same or decreases at your organization?
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Note
:
Respondents
who answered “not sure” were excluded from this analysis. Slide14
Increases
Stays the same
Decreases
Male
Fem
ale
Male
Fem
ale
Male
Fem
ale
Super
Bowl
(n = 282)
16%
7%
77%
91%
7%2% NCAA college basketball tournament (n = 276)
6%
2%
90%
97%
3%
1%
NCAA
c
ollege
football championship
(n = 275)
6%
2%
92%
97%
2%
1%
The
Motion Picture Academy of America Awards (also known as the Oscars)
(n = 275)
1%
1%
97%
97%
2%
2%
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Generally speaking, after the major televised events listed below, would you say the number of employees, by gender, who do not report for work the next day increases, stays the same or decreases at your organization?
Note
:
n = 269. Respondents
who answered “not sure” were excluded from this analysis. Percentages
may
not equal 100% due rounding
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Does your organization have formal/informal gatherings during these events? For example, certain organizations host parties or social events around watching
a major sporting
event.
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Demographics
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Demographics: Organization Staff Size
n
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Demographics: Organization Sector
n =
297
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Demographics: Organization Industry
Organization Industry
Percentage
Manufacturing
20%
Health care
and social assistance
16%
Professional, scientific, technical services
14%
Finance
and insurance
13%
Government
agencies
10%
Educational
services
9%
Administrative,
support and waste management4% Repair and maintenance4% Transportation and warehousing4% Arts, entertainment, recreation3% Construction
3%
Note: n = 313. Percentages
do not total 100% due to
multiple responses.
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Demographics: Organization Industry (continued)
Organization Industry
Percentage
Real estate
3%
Retail
trade
3%
Utilities
3%
Wholesale
trade
3%
Accommodation,
food services
2%
Information
2%
Mining, quarrying,
and oil and gas extraction
2% Religious grantmaking2% Agriculture1% Personal services0% Other
9%
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U.S.
-based operations only
81%
Multinational operations
19%
Single-unit organization: An
organization in which the location and the organization are one and the same
34%
Multi-unit organization: An organization that has more than one location
66%
Multi-unit
headquarters determines HR policies and practices
52%
Each work location determines HR policies
and practices
4%
A combination of both the
work location and the multi-unit headquarters determines HR policies and practices
45%
Is your organization a single-unit organization or a multi-unit organization?For multi-unit organizations, are HR policies and practices determined by the multi-unit headquarters, by each work location or by both?Does your organization have U.S.-based operations (business units) only, or does it operate multinationally?n = 324 n = 317 Note: n = 213. Percentages do not equal 100% due to rounding.Corporate (companywide)71%
Business unit/division
12%
Facility/location
17%
n =
215
What is the HR department/function
for which you responded throughout
this survey?
Demographics: Other
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SHRM
Survey Findings: The Use of Office
PoolsResponse rate = 13%355 HR professional respondents from a randomly selected sample of SHRM’s membership participated in this survey.Margin of error is +/-4%Survey fielded March 20-27, 2013
Survey Methodology
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