Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe CHICAGO, March 17 (UPI) -- A Chicago-based Web site said its survey indicates 18 percent of U.S. office workers have participated in March Madness college basketball pools at their jobs. CareerBuilder.com said its survey of 8,038 full-time office workers, conducted online between Nov. 12 and Dec. 1, found 24 percent of male respondents said they have participated in office pools related to the annual March NCAA basketball championship, while 11 percent of women said the same. Advertisement Regionally, the poll indicates that the highest percentage of pool-participating office workers, 23 percent, are from the Midwest, while 18 percent hail from the Northeast, 16 percent live in the South and 15 percent are from the West. The poll also found that respondents had participated in other office pools, including bets on the state of the Dow Jones index, the number of e-mails a new manager would send in a single day, the length of time it would take a pile of snow to melt and how long it would take a co-worker's relationship to end. The poll had an error margin of plus or minus 1.09 percentage points.
