All require many employees to spend most of their time with clients.
The bill applies to companies whose employees spend more than 26 hours a week on the machines.
American said that the 550 employees who would be affected by the cuts did not spend all their time dealing with customers.
Each employee spent only 11 minutes on any given project before being interrupted and whisked off to do something else.
All new employees spend their first two days at work reading.
Many employees spent their money immediately, in a variety of ways.
He said that the employees had been spending most of their pay on expensive rentals.
Life.com, whose employees now number 60, spent five years and $2.8 million coming up with 50,000 questions and building the software around them, he added.
The other five employees spend the entire day dealing with insurance companies.
The sour economy changed the way the Harp's employees spent their off hours.