Google’s Pac-Man Tribute: Bad for Business?
We had previously reported that Google celebrated the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man by embedding a mini game which incorporated the Google name. The not unexpected side effect is that employers paid an estimate 4.8 million hours for workers to skirt their job responsibilities in lieu of spending some quality time with their old pie-shaped friend.
Pac-Man, a video game hero from the early 1980s, got a major publicity boost last weekend when Google placed a fully-functional version of the classic arcade hit on its home page. The tribute was in honor of Pac-Man’s 30th anniversary. Great, so millions of people spent their precious weekend minutes (hours?) maneuvering a maze and gobbling up pac-dots. Problem is, their Pac-Man addiction may have crossed over into the workplace too.
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