At the end of a story on email, the Wall Street Journal published some interesting statistics about Internet habits about people at work.
The report was generated by Web@Work survey and surveyed 500 employees to find that the Internet is more addictive than coffee to people at work. Here are some specifics.
50% of employees surveyed said they use the office connection for work and personal surfing, with news, email and banking sites at the top of the nonwork list.
About one in five plays streaming media files at least once a week.
Plus, 23% of men and 12% of woman ‘fessed up to having viewed (inadvertently or intentionally) x-rated material at work.
Another report about how companies are getting serious about employee use of the web states that.
76% of companies surveyed monitored employee Web use
Sixty-five percent used software to block connections to certain sites, up sharply from 2001