At the consultancy where I interned (94-95), the table was used daily …At GM (95-96), it was a daily 11am-1pm thing - and they didn’t just have a ping pong table, they had a massive room with 12 tables! At Black & Decker (96-2007), I had to acquire the table myself and start the freakin tourney myself, then it became an every day “at lunch” thing supplemented by 3pm-ish wake up games before the late afternoon jolt of creativity - luckily it became a multi-departmental past time. Now, we have a table that gets used more by my kids than by anyone else, but I partake regularly. Like others have said, though, it’s more of a cultural barometer than anything else. As soon as a department head looks down on or eliminates that type of entertainment, the bad times are coming…or he/she is no longer worthy in my book. 