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Skill games & water cooler talk
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I met some business people who are in the online skill games business. Online skill-based games are a growing genre of browser-based games, which are electronic games played online via the Internet. They represent a part of the worldwide growth of social networks.
Two of the current big player’s sites are http://www.king.com and http://www.worldwinner.com.
In many offices, the current selection of games is kept off limits by the company’s computer firewall. If the new wave of games and social networks have their way, computer firewalls will not be a deterrent.
There are plenty of organizations that have policies of no web surfing during working hours. However, the enforcement of such policies in many cases is based on personal ethics. What are your ethics and practices?
We all either have or can take breaks. There’s also plenty of reason for downtime depending upon the work demands of the company or our given work situation. Back in the day, there was plenty of wasted work time with water cooler talk. Now surfing the net or and skill games may be replacing down time at the water cooler.
Besides, when we congregated at the water cooler, we talked behind the backs of everyone who wasn’t at the water cooler, including our boss! When we’re playing skills-based games, at least we’re not creating destructive office gossip!
What’s going on in your office? Who’s gaming, who’s talking and who’s working?
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