{"id":3050,"date":"2010-03-10T09:39:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T14:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=3050"},"modified":"2018-01-23T18:12:22","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T23:12:22","slug":"there-goes-another-slice-of-office-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/03\/10\/there-goes-another-slice-of-office-productivity\/","title":{"rendered":"There goes another slice of office productivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/191155\/wait_computer_games_that_look_like_office_productivity_apps.html\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Peckham<\/a> looks at a new &#8220;office productivity suite&#8221; which is sure to be popular in certain work-averse environments:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Pilot a spaceship, paddle a ball, even play horizontal Tetris, all while crafting reports, cutting costs, and scanning monthly performance charts&#8230;or at least appearing to. It&#8217;s the latest way to avoid work while looking like you&#8217;re furiously engaged in it.<\/p>\n<p>The brainchild of four developers from the Netherlands, <a href=\"http:\/\/cantyouseeimbusy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">CantYouSeeImBusy.com<\/a> teases a collection of free Flash-based mini games that let you slack off, chameleon-like, by adopting the form of an office productivity suite. Each one opens like a full-screen pop-up and offers a panic button that&#8217;s smarter than the average escape hatch: Tap the space bar and the &#8220;game&#8221; elements vanish, leaving just the &#8220;productivity&#8221; features in place.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s face it, we all want to relax every now and then, but still want to appear professional or busy!&#8221; reads the site intro. &#8220;That&#8217;s why all the games at CantYouSeeImBusy.com are designed in a way that nobody can see that you&#8217;re gaming. In fact, your boss and colleagues will think that you&#8217;re working harder than ever before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Peckham looks at a new &#8220;office productivity suite&#8221; which is sure to be popular in certain work-averse environments: Pilot a spaceship, paddle a ball, even play horizontal Tetris, all while crafting reports, cutting costs, and scanning monthly performance charts&#8230;or at least appearing to. It&#8217;s the latest way to avoid work while looking like you&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[109,92],"class_list":["post-3050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","tag-computers","tag-software"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-Nc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3050"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41932,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050\/revisions\/41932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}