Everyone does it and you know they do. It appeals both to students and grandma’s, they are for hardcore gamers and for people who barely know how to use a PC. Free flash games are taking over the minds of PC users and there’s nothing you can do about it.
If 5 years ago you had to go through all the trouble of getting yourself a video games console, hooking it up to a TV set and then having to buy actual physical games to put it in your console, now you can kill time practically anywhere and on any device. Fact is, everyone does it. Bank workers play their butts off in-between serving clients, IT workers go for 5 minute sessions instead of coffee breaks at their workplace, and there’s nothing you can really do about it.
Working in an IT environment, you as a business owner realize that you can’t control what your staff does in front of their PCs, unless you have surveillance software installed, of course. But still, how can you tell if your programmer is doing programming stuff and not kicking it up in the latest Tower Defense flash game, provided that you don’t have enough skills yourself to understand what exactly he’s...