Following news that a Canadian accountant must pay damages to her employer for 'time-theft', FNN suggests that this judgement could lead to millions of people being fired around the world.

Time-theft is when you claim to be working for an employer on legitimate company business but in fact you are not - in effect you are defrauding your employer.

Given that most people are at sometime on Facebook/Twitter, Amazon/eBay, news and even porn sites while at work this judgement could lead to millions of people being fired or asked to pay back wages for stolen time.

At the very least it could lead to even more sophisticated 'usage-tracking' software being installed on work computers, laptops and phones to surveil employees' daily habits and penalize them for bad timekeeping habits.

Time theft could in fact turn out to be a much more serious problem than say pilferage of office supplies so a crackdown is to be expected.

FNN expects that photos of employee of the month could be supplemented by photos of this month's biggest time thieves holding a billboard stating how many hours they stole. You have been warned.