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Edinburgh, Sat, 04 Jul 2009 ANI Edinburgh (Scotland), July 4 (ANI): With around eight million viewers watching the Wimbledon semi-final between British tennis hope Andy Murray and American Andy Roddick, experts have estimated that 120 million pounds worth of man hours were lost at work. Analysts believe that around half of the eight million skipped work to watch the historic semi-final, reports The Scotsman. Douglas McWilliams, chief executive of the Centre for Economics and Business Research, was quoted as saying: "It would probably be reasonable to assume a loss of about one and a half hour's productivity on average. "Hourly GDP in the UK is 800 million pounds so this... [read full story]
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