On Friday, the Internet browser celebrated 30 years of Pac-Man putting on their home page their version of the game. The idea, according to a study, was irresistible to workers throughout the world.
The legendary Japanese video game Pac-Man was irresistible to workers around the world, according to a study, Google PacMan devoted five million work hours.
Last Friday, the Internet browser decided to pay homage to Pac-Man’s 30th birthday. Nostalgia gripped the workers around the globe and made them to stay tree times more on the page than normally.
That translated into productivity losses is accounted for $ 120 million, according to the study of RescueTime company specializing in software for monitoring how and where workers navigate. The company developed this study from a sample of 11,000 users.
According to the study, that day the 11 seconds on average which usually take to do a search, lengthened to more than triple: 36 seconds.
On average, estimated that the in the working hours employees usually do about 22 searches on Google. If you multiply that number by the amount of extra seconds of each visit, he concludes that workers spent 4.8 million hours on the web (the equivalent of around 550 million years).
And the economic data translation, considering an average salary of $ 25 an hour, was that the Pac-Man caused a loss to the productivity of companies around the world U.S. $ 120 million.
“Fortunately,” the authors of the study say, that “75% of users did not realize that you could play by pressing the ‘Insert Coin’.”
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