Angry Birds Costing $1.5 Billion in Lost Wages?
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Angry Birds Costing $1.5 Billion in Lost Wages?
1:30 AM – September 15, 2011 – By Kevin Parrish –
Source : The Atlantic
Angry Birds is played for 200 million minutes each day. Just 5 percent of that could mean billions in wasted employee wages if played at work.
ZoomAlexis Madrigal of The Atlantic estimates that Rovio’s Angry Birds is costing businesses around $1.5 billion in lost wages. The estimate is based on a recent
report by AYTM claiming that the bird-flinging game is played for 200 million minutes per day. That essentially equals to 16 years of continuous game play every hour of every day.
According to the estimate, if 5-percent of those 200 million minutes are Americans playing Angry Birds at work, that’s around 43,333,333 on-the-clock hours of Angry Birds per year. Multiply that number by the hourly pay of America’s smartphone owners (a rather steep $35 average), then $1,516,666,667 worth of lost wages are lost due to the game. That’s more than the rumored valuation of Angry Birds developer Rovio which is estimated to be $1,200,000,000.