Cube Rat Slaves: You spent too much time celebrating Pac-Man's birthday with Google last week

[marmar]

from the Toronto Star:



Google’s Pac-Man logo sucked up 4.82 million work hours
Published On Tue May 25 2010


Those seconds you spent playing Google’s interactive Pac-Man fed a worldwide productivity drain of 4.82 million hours, an online calculation says.

RescueTime, a software tool to measure how employees spent their time, found that people who clicked through the Google-Pac-Man logo on Friday squandered an average of 36 extra seconds more on google.com, compared with the previous Friday.

The dollar tally was $120,483,000 in lost productivity, RescueTime said Monday. That’s based on an average Google user cost of $25 an hour.

The average Google user spends only four minutes and 30 seconds a day on Google search, or roughly 11 seconds on each page view, said RescueTime’s founder Tony Wright. .........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.thestar.com/business/article/813857--google-s-pac-man-logo-sucked-up-4-82-million-work-hours?bn=1

[petronius]

1. Only 36 extra seconds?

The average cube-rat sucks at Pac-Man... :)

[Beartracks]

2. I think I cleared the level in that amount of time...

... and since there were no new levels, that was that. And by some weird quirk of fate, I also worked late that day, so my net loss was 0 hours! :freak:



(Ha ha! We finally have an appropriate thread for this smiley: :freak: )

[hunter]

3. Hooray for Google!

Productivity is usually bad for the earth.

In case you missed it:

http://www.google.com/pacman