It’s March Madness and you’re working from home. What could go wrong?

CHICAGO — Watching March Madness at the office has often meant furtive glances at your smartphone, obscuring the game on your computer screen or sneaking off to a bar TV in the middle of the afternoon to avoid detection.

Now it’s game on for work-from-home employees everywhere, who can watch the three-week tournament with impunity, far from the prying eyes of their bosses.

One year after its cancellation marked the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, March Madness is back, offering bracket pools, Cinderella teams and 67 televised games/excuses for putting off your work. But the NCAA men’s