Pakman took 4.8 million hours
It may look like a small amount of time, but the additional 36 seconds that, on average, each Google visitor spent playing Pacman add up to 4.8 million lost hours.
According to RescueTime , Pacman, the version of the all-beloved game, which celebrated its anniversary that day, placed instead of the logo on the search giant's main page on Friday, cost the economy 4,819,352 man-hours and $ 120,483,800 of lost profits. As RescueTime says, you could hire every Google employee, including co-founder Larry Page, Sergey Brin and CEO Eric Schmidt, for six weeks for this amount of money.
However, in 36 seconds spent on the game, you will not do that much work. And how much time does an average person spend when he is distracted by other time killers, such as presidential elections, sporting events, the final episodes of Lost, the death of celebrities (for example, Michael Jackson) and so on? Of course, this figure is very rounded, and therefore it is impossible to say exactly how many people killed a whole Friday for a remake of a 30-year game from Google.
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“What worries me more,” the author says, “is how many people lost time not on the game itself in Pakman, but on how to stop the automatic launch of the game or turn off the music.
As soon as he published the news about Google’s new “logo,” the author of the news received a huge number of emails in which people complained that they could not stop the game and turn off the music. Later in the day, Google changed Pacman so that the game started after a certain period of time, and the music could be turned off, but before that a lot of people definitely had to suffer. Surely some companies and government agencies had to look for how to block the main page of the search engine, because many of them practice banning games during the working day.
Still, it seems to me that many more people enjoyed this Google experiment, and most businesses did not mind, because happy employees are not so bad.
via cnet
According to RescueTime , Pacman, the version of the all-beloved game, which celebrated its anniversary that day, placed instead of the logo on the search giant's main page on Friday, cost the economy 4,819,352 man-hours and $ 120,483,800 of lost profits. As RescueTime says, you could hire every Google employee, including co-founder Larry Page, Sergey Brin and CEO Eric Schmidt, for six weeks for this amount of money.
However, in 36 seconds spent on the game, you will not do that much work. And how much time does an average person spend when he is distracted by other time killers, such as presidential elections, sporting events, the final episodes of Lost, the death of celebrities (for example, Michael Jackson) and so on? Of course, this figure is very rounded, and therefore it is impossible to say exactly how many people killed a whole Friday for a remake of a 30-year game from Google.
')
“What worries me more,” the author says, “is how many people lost time not on the game itself in Pakman, but on how to stop the automatic launch of the game or turn off the music.
As soon as he published the news about Google’s new “logo,” the author of the news received a huge number of emails in which people complained that they could not stop the game and turn off the music. Later in the day, Google changed Pacman so that the game started after a certain period of time, and the music could be turned off, but before that a lot of people definitely had to suffer. Surely some companies and government agencies had to look for how to block the main page of the search engine, because many of them practice banning games during the working day.
Still, it seems to me that many more people enjoyed this Google experiment, and most businesses did not mind, because happy employees are not so bad.
via cnet
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/94639/
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