Time wasting on the internet

Recent reserach has confirmed that the internet is a major source of time-wastage for many employees, including salacious material and social networking websites.

More than half (55%) of the human resources decision makers polled in a Clearswift survey had caught employees wasting time on the internet, or had disciplined employees for wasting time.

Pornography was found to be a particularly prevalent time-waster: 60% of respondents had either found staff accessing pornography or disciplined staff for accessing it via the internet.

A large majority (79%) of HR professionals reported blocking access to social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace.

Despite these policies, 68% of surveyed HR decision makers reported leaving monitoring to the IT department.

From http://www.mybusiness.com.au/newsletter/index.php?issue=76