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23 Aug 2006
The results from a survey, which was recently conducted by a gambling odds comparison site, Bet Rescue, has finally been released to the general public. The results show that a significant number of British gambling fans use the workplace to indulge their gambling entertainment instead of working or taking a break by the water cooler.
According to the survey, British gambling office workers gamble online over GBP 2 billion while they are at work, while almost 3 million adults admit using their company’s computers for Internet gambling each week. These are huge numbers among the British population, and they just seem to be growing. Gambling players are playing with an average of GBP 23 each on soccer, lottery sites, horses, casino betting, poker and other gambling sites. Over the course of a year, the average work-time gambling fan gets through nearly GBP 1,200.
So what is the downside to this study, besides the fact that workers are not working during office hours? Less than a quarter of the money wagered on these gambling sites is ever won back. Those are huge losses to take while at work, which can cause anxiety, worry, and anger. Whether or not this behavior among gambling fans in the workplace will continue is unknown, but so far, there is no sign that it is going to stop any time soon. One can only hope that the desire to gamble will be tamed with time and that these workers go back to the original reason they are at their workplace – to work.
The results from a survey, which was recently conducted by a gambling odds comparison site, Bet Rescue, has finally been released to the general public. The results show that a significant number of British gambling fans use the workplace to indulge their gambling entertainment instead of working or taking a break by the water cooler.
According to the survey, British gambling office workers gamble online over GBP 2 billion while they are at work, while almost 3 million adults admit using their company’s computers for Internet gambling each week. These are huge numbers among the British population, and they just seem to be growing. Gambling players are playing with an average of GBP 23 each on soccer, lottery sites, horses, casino betting, poker and other gambling sites. Over the course of a year, the average work-time gambling fan gets through nearly GBP 1,200.
So what is the downside to this study, besides the fact that workers are not working during office hours? Less than a quarter of the money wagered on these gambling sites is ever won back. Those are huge losses to take while at work, which can cause anxiety, worry, and anger. Whether or not this behavior among gambling fans in the workplace will continue is unknown, but so far, there is no sign that it is going to stop any time soon. One can only hope that the desire to gamble will be tamed with time and that these workers go back to the original reason they are at their workplace – to work.
