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Quarter of Workers' Time Online Is Personal
sloit writes "Most people spend more than 25 per cent of their time online at work on personal activities.
And 80 per cent of emails sent by volume in the workplace are personal.
Bosses often have no way of tracking Internet activity or policies to define what staff can and cannot do.
Paul Hortop, who reviews company network security for consultancy Voco, said the most common websites visited by personal web surfers were online trading sites, instant messaging/chat services and peer-to-peer sharing sites (allowing movie, music and software sharing)."
Clearly a general agreement you came to in a discussion with an unknown number of unnamed counterparts is just as good as a scientific study. If you want to make generalizations based on anecdotal evidence, I'm an American worker who's spent the last 3 weeks in London and France, and the amount of work these two offices get done in a given day is pathetic compared to what we do in the states.