This also helps in the cases of those addicted to porn or gambling, where they're removed from the worker pool long before they taint the company's reputation with their dirty little secrets. An even more important factor in the increase of productivity lies with the disappearance of management. Before Web-enabled offices became the norm, the explosion of MBAs across the country meant at least one smarmy manager was micromanaging everyone in sight. Were the US business community an army, the troops would simply frag their idiot commanders and go home, but since this behavior is the same everywhere, the troops simply wait for the MBAs to expire from alcohol poisoning. Com and Pharmacy.
Access even acts as a relief valve for the burned-out.
Why take a lunch break to go bookhunting, with the attendant dangers to the company of that person leaving and not bothering to come back, when it's just as easy to buy books through Amazon. E-mail is not only one of the great inventions of the modern era, it's also one of the major factors in the current productivity boom. Without the Web acting as a giant filter for the incompetent and malingering among us, the United States would have been taken over by Canada long ago, and only a fraction of us know how to speak Canadian.