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Interactive PAC-MAN Google doodle eats up millions of hours of workplace productivity

Employees spent work hours playing PAC-MAN
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the PAC-MAN video-game, Google changed its traditional logo to an interactive PAC-MAN logo.    

Rescue Time, a productivity insights and time management company, found that 4,819,352 hours of consumer’s time was spent playing the game, which is equivalent to $120,483,800 in wages or 4.82 million hours.

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