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

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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