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From: isolated@alix.UUCP (20 James D. Corder)
Newsgroups: news.misc,news.admin
Subject: Re: Some interesting news stats
Summary: If time is money, then what is money?
Message-ID: <208@alix.UUCP>
Date: 26 Oct 88 15:05:51 GMT
References: <5200@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <11250@bellcore.bellcore.com>
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In article <11250@bellcore.bellcore.com>, tr@wind.bellcore.com (tom reingold) writes:
=> On the subject of "Some interesting news stats", spaf@arthur.cs.purdue.edu
=> (Gene Spafford) gives some very interesting statistics indeed!
=> 
=> $ [...]
=> # 303,000 (est.) Usenet readers spends 20 minutes per day reading/posting
=> $ news, at an average wage of $15 per hour per person (if they were working).
=> $ Then, the total cost of Usenet at its current size is $593,125,000 per
=> $ year!  Even if those numbers are off by a factor of 10 (doubtful), those
=> $ numbers are staggering!
=> $ [...]
=> 
=> Let the employers worry > about lost productivity on an individual basis.
=> (Not that I think Gene is asking us to worry.)  You could make the same
=> argument about coffee breaks and how they are a threat to our GNP, etc.,
=> If all of us newsaholics weren't "wasting" our time and our > bosses' time
=> reading news, we would probably be wasting it in other > ways, so it's
=> questionable as to whether or not there is some kind of real loss.
=> 
=> Tom Reingold

	Did anyone stop to think that maybe the company time spent reading
the news is a form of relaxation that might inspire the creative mind, thereby
increasing productivity? :-)

Thank you,
James D. Corder
P.O. Box 27473
Columbus, Ohio 43227
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