{"id":1868,"date":"2010-05-25T14:12:23","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T18:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/?p=1868"},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:56","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:56","slug":"googles-pac-man-logo-sucked-up-4-82-million-work-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2010\/05\/25\/googles-pac-man-logo-sucked-up-4-82-million-work-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s Pac-Man logo sucked up 4.82 million work hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/business\/article\/813857--google-s-pac-man-logo-sucked-up-4-82-million-work-hours?bn=1\">Toronto Star<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Those seconds you spent playing Google\u2019s interactive Pac-Man fed a worldwide productivity drain of 4.82 million hours, an online calculation says.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The dollar tally was $120,483,000 in lost productivity, RescueTime said Monday. That\u2019s based on an average Google user cost of $25 an hour.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I played it. Did you?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Toronto Star: Those seconds you spent playing Google\u2019s 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 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[263,269,32,266,268,267,262,265,264,270],"class_list":{"0":"post-1868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-computer-news","7":"category-digital-entertainment","8":"tag-3oth-anniversary","9":"tag-employees","10":"tag-google","11":"tag-google-logo","12":"tag-hours","13":"tag-logo","14":"tag-pac-man","15":"tag-productivity","16":"tag-rescuetime","17":"tag-toronto-star","18":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}