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Report Indicates Workers Play A Lot of Games On the Job
A report released by casual gaming mecca PopCap Games indicates that white collar workers play games constantly throughout the day. The study indicates that as salaries and titles improve on the organizational chart, the amount of gameplaying in a given day increases substantially. "Considering that the casual games market is around 200 million people, PopCap estimates that the executive crowd is very much into casual gaming, with about 80 million 'white collar' workers playing. 24 percent of the 'white collar' employees said they do play at work, and that number jumps up to 35 percent for CEOs, CFOs and other senior executives. 98 percent said that they play casual games at home too." What's your favorite on-the-job casual title?
First posting.
The end guy is tough.
Sig? What sig? Do I have to have a sig!?!?
It involves typing loads of stuff really quickly, then to earn points, what you type does something special. And then, someone judges your typing by 'testing' how special that something is. If that something special does what the piece of paper says, then you get a pat on the head and maybe a biscuit. You could play it for hours, sometimes you get on a roll, sometimes you bomb. They even have people called 'project managers' who make sure the gameplay doesn't get out of control.
Task Mangler
I run adult (porn) web sites for a living, and have for the past 4 years. Our busiest traffic days are week days, with Mondays being the busiest. Weekends always see a large drop in traffic. The busiest traffic hours are also during "standard North American work hours". Between 11am to 7pm EST. A huge peak between 4pm - 6pm and a very sharp decline around 8pm or 9pm.
/. stories during the weekend. If I had to make any guesses I'd think that people are often stressed at work and so they resort to slacking off be it playing games or surfing the Internet ... or jerking off.
I'm assuming most types of web sites probably see the same thing. I certainly notice fewer comments on
Run around with a gimp and deny evolution. If that doesn't work, tell those pesky kids to get off your lawn.
We play "Guess Who is quitting this week because they are tired of the BS". We have more turnovers here than the Pillsbury Corp. It's a very difficult game but much better than "Guess who just took hostages"....