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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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[The Office] How does Michael get away with using company time to make everyone apart of his shenanigans?
gpt
Fun fact, most people who work a 9-5 office job don't actually spend 8 hours in the day working. They'll take a few hours worth of work and spread it out throughout the day to make it seem like 8 hours. Basically everyone does this to some degree, with variations in how they waste time in the middle. (screwing around on the internet, talking about their cats, smoke breaks, etc) Contractors call it padding estimates, HR calls it wellness breaks. Everyone knows about it, and as long as the work gets done nobody is bothered by it.

Employees at the Scranton branch don't get to do this. When they have actual deadlines and deliverables they have to spend as much time as they can working because it's entirely possible that Michael will get back from lunch and decide to re-arrange everyone's desks, or that they're all spending the rest of the day playing board games. They can't plan out their time, so they have to be as productive as possible with the time they have. (except for top tier slackers like Jim) 

From the corporate perspective, the Scranton branch is incredibly productive *because* of Michael's shenanigans. They haven't figured out what is actually contributing to that success, and every attempt to do so has left them even more clueless. They don't mess with him because they don't want to mess with his success.