RescueTime: Daylight Savings Time costs the United States $480,000,000

Re:RescueTime: Daylight Savings Time costs the United States... by doki_pen on Thursday March 12, 2009 @06:04PM (#514179)

Statistics like this are just as silly as "Employees using YouTube costs the US 500 Trillion a year". Most knowledge workers don't work 9-5. They work until the work is done. What they missed Monday morning will be made up for during the rest of the week. I do hate Daylight Savings though..

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Re:RescueTime: Daylight Savings Time costs the United States... by aneesh on Thursday March 12, 2009 @09:38PM (#514391)

I agree, that knowledge workers usually work until the work is done. But 16 lost minutes from DST, or half-an-hour on YouTube, has a cost. It may not affect whether the work is done, but it probably does affect the quality of the work done. It's a zero-sum game, and something's gotta give - either work quality or quantity has to decrease, or else time spent on work has to increase.

But it's a good question to ask. Maybe Tony & Co can tell us whether workers make up for this loss over the course of the week.

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