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Facebook has done a depressingly good job of getting an entire generation addicted to its platform. But your typical human spends eight hours a day at work: eight hours when they’re not supposed to be updating statuses, posting memes or sending stickers. Just think of the lost engagement.

Some kind of “Facebook For Work” product has been rumored for years, but according to reports from The Information and TechCrunch, the Facebookpocalypse is nearly upon us.

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Facebook apologized on Friday for what it described as a “miscalculation” in the way it reported how long, on average, videos on the site were viewed— an error that caused the metric to be exaggerated.

The error stemmed from how the company did the math on video viewing length, taking into account only people who watched a video for three seconds or more, the social media giant said. If the company had taken into account views that were less than three seconds, the average duration of video viewed would be shorter.

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