Banana time is a concept coined by sociologist Donald Roy. It captures how employees have made workplaces more tolerable by participating in off-task camaraderie. Banana time was the collectively determined break time of factory workers, the start of which was signaled with a lunch box banana. It seems that the Internet has supplied new tremendous dimensions to workplace recreations as attested by this paper: "CONSTRUCTIVE APPROACHES TO INTERNET RECREATION IN THE WORKPLACE" by Jo Ann Oravec