“Suppose a business said everyone on the sales force was getting a free deck of cards so that when they get bored they can play solitaire” systems manager Clifford Stoll told Time in 1998. “Not going to happen, right? But if you give everyone on the sales force a $2,000 computer, you know they’re going to play some solitaire because it’s the second or third most common program run.”
You mention Solitaire and—after the amazing end-game card haze—the first thing that pops into your head is that it was once seen as the single biggest threat to office productivity facing this planet’s workers. And in many regards, that’s correct.
Most people who have worked in an office can testify to the lure of the game, and could name one or two colleagues who spent a little too much time cutting the decks when they should have been filing reports. Some even take it too far; in 2006, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg famously fired a city employee he caught playing the game while at work.
This addiction can even spread beyond the workplace and into people’s homes. My father has spent more time playing Freecell over the past decade than he has doing housework, for example. Things can get even worse for some: in 1996, Dr. Maressa Hecht Orzack opened the world’s first clinic for computer addicts as a response to her own chronic Solitaire addiction.
Yet things aren’t all bad for the humble little card game when it comes to the workplace. A University of Utrecht study from 2003 found that people allowed to play Solitaire while at work both improved their productivity and felt better about their jobs compared to those who were barred from playing. This was because if “rationed” correctly, a game of world of solitaire turn one functions much like a cigarette or toilet break, helping the employee take a short refrain from work, which refreshes them.
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