CHARLOTTE -- March madness is in full swing and the Employers Association says it’s not usual for office productivity to decline during the annual basketball tournament.

“Managers have to take control of it. As long as someone's not wasting too much time and it’s not killing the overall productivity, there's nothing wrong with taking a quick peak,” said Kenny Colbert, President for the Employers Association.

Colbert said people will likely take longer lunches, leave work early, or take the entire day off to catch a game.

But he said they get the most calls about office pools. The American Gaming Association experts $10 billion will be waged on this year’s tournament.

“Typically you don’t let someone run up and down the halls and sell Girl Scout cookies and Boy Scout popcorn, so why if you disallow that would you allow some guy to run up and down the hall and have a basketball pool? You need to be consistent,” he said.

There were 98 million live video streams of March Madness on websites and television apps during last year's tournament.