Report: Employees Spend Nearly an Hour a Day on Personal Internet Use
Checking sports scores or sending instant messages to friends may seem inconsequential, but time spent online on personal activities adds up. Executives polled said they believe employees, on average, spend 56 minutes each day on non-business-related e-mail, instant messaging and Internet use at work. And while surfing the Web may seem like a guilty pleasure, it's not a secret one. Nearly two-thirds of those surveyed (64 percent) said their organizations monitor employee Internet activity at least somewhat closely.
The national poll includes responses from 150 senior executives -- including those from human resources, finance and marketing departments -- with the nation's 1,000 largest companies. It was conducted by an independent research firm and developed by Accountemps, the world's first and largest specialized staffing service for temporary accounting, finance and bookkeeping
professionals.
Executives were asked, "On average, how many minutes each day do you think employees spend on non-work-related e-mail, instant messaging and web surfing?" The mean response was 56 minutes.
The same individuals also were asked, "How closely does your firm monitor employee Internet activity?" Their responses:
- Very closely 23%
- Somewhat closely 41%
- Not very closely 30%
- Not at all 4%
- Don't know 2%
posted by Fergie @ 8/09/2005 07:30:00 AM
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