Angry Birds Costing Companies $1.5 Billion In Lost Wages

    You know every year during March Madness, the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, analysts come out with the numbers of how distraction from the tournament and office pools, racks up costs for employers?

Well Angry Birds is no different. According to Alexis Madrigal of the Atlantic, the game Angry Birds is costing employers over $1.5 billion dollars in lost wages. Madrigal contends that these numbers, while they could be a smigeon off, show the cost of lost productivity due to Angry Birds.  It’s also important to point out that Rovio Mobile (Angry Birds developer) has a valuation of 1.2 billion. Wow!

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Source: SAI

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