According to a recent study, the Pac Man game that Google put up on its front page the other day (May 21st) ate up nearly five million hours of work time.

Put on Google’s front page to celebrate 30 years since Pac Man debuted in Japan, the game was reworked so that the layout fitted around the Google logo.

The firm in charge of the study, a company called Rescue Time, believe that more time could have been spent on the game had more people realised that the game was playable on not just a redesign of the logo.

Rescue Time worked out that the five million hours of work lost to the game works out to be around 120 million dollars in lost productivity which, claim RT is enough to hire the entire Google workforce for six weeks.

And to think, like a lot of people, I didn’t even know it was playable…

Photo courtesy of guim.co.uk

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