Did the Kavanaugh hearing just cost US employers $1.76bn?

Distractions at work can lead to lost productivity, which translates into an expense for employers

You can say one thing about Challenger, Gray & Christmas: for a company with such a festive component to their name, they sure know how to ruin a party.

Over the past year or so, the outplacement firm’s researchers have given employers all sorts of reasons to dread any events that rivets the nation. For example, the firm reported that last year’s NCAA tournament and Super Bowl would cost employers $2.3bn and $3 bn, respectively in lost employee productivity.

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