Japan Officials Edited Wikipedia at Work

October 5, 2007

(AP) -- Japan's Agriculture Ministry reprimanded six bureaucrats after an internal probe found they spent work hours contributing to Wikipedia on topics unrelated to farm issues - including 260 entries about cartoon robots.

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plasma_guy - Oct 07, 2007
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The action, by itself, looks like something you might read in an article about China and freedom of speech. Yet it occurs in Japan and freedom of speech goes out the window. If you want to improve productivity, focus on what distracts the individual, not on the general environment.
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