Slacking off | Is watching Netflix at work really that bad?

There’s a fantastic scene in the US edition of The Office in which bumbling-yet-loveable protagonist Michael Scott is rumbled whilst watching Netflix’s postal subscription service at work.

The audacity of getting rental DVDs delivered to your office is a toungue-in-cheek reminder that Scott is not only a poor leader – but a clueless one, too.

However, the days of going to Blockbuster and renting a video with a bag of popcorn, or having physical DVDs dropped through your door sporting the now-iconic ‘Netflix Red’ on the cover are well and truly behind us, and in an age in which nearly everyone has an almost infinite (and constantly curated) library of movies and binge-able TV at their fingertips, fitting in some easily-consumable content on your iPhone or work computer really doesn’t seem like that big of a deal.

But is it?