[cronopios]

Telefónica, the main telecommunications provider in Spain, is also hit. Employees were instructed to shut down their PC's and go home.

[Cyph0n]

Damn. I wonder how much money they lost due to the decrease in productivity.

[lottin]

Technically speaking productivity is amount of output per unit of time worked, working less time typically reduces both the numerator and the denominator so it doesn't necessarily affect productivity.

[ptaipale]

But this definitely impacts the production, i.e. the total amount of output.

[iagovar]

Operations kept working, it just the office stuff that got down, and a bunch of web apps used to get status info on DSLAMS and bunch more subsistems. It is bad, but not as bad as a total disaster.