Internet use at work.. is this you?

Amik

Electoral Member
Mar 21, 2006
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...According to the study, 72.34 percent of all employee personal use of the Internet in the workplace has to do with "employee productivity draining Web sites," including the following types of sites in order of highest use: shopping, entertainment, personal e-mail, sports, chat rooms, job searches and game playing. This "employee productivity loss" group accounts for 93.99 percent of personal use bandwidth costs for employers.

As if this alone were not worthy enough for concern, the study goes on to document that 8.23 percent of the personal use of the Internet in the workplace involves visits to Web sites that pose potential legal liability for employers, such as pornographic and gambling sites and sites that contain hate speech and the like...



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