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The costs of Sith
Challenger Gray & Christmas, a Chicago outplacement firm, estimated that 51 percent of people attending opening day would be full-time workers, costing employers as much as $627 million in lost productivity.
Here is the story. And will it also be a slow day in the economics blogosphere? -- "Nobody contacted for this article wanted to discuss their planned absences."
Posted by Tyler Cowen on May 17, 2005 at 07:03 AM in Film | Permalink
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