Employees Like Social Networks and Personal E-mail

A survey released on Monday by 8e6 Technologies, an Internet security company, showed that a majority of employees in the U.S. and the U.K. visit social networking sites at work and feel they should have full access to them.

Fifty-five percent of respondents in the U.S. said they use various social networks at work, while 52 percent of respondents in the U.K. said the same.

However, when it came to those who believed they should have full access to these social networks for personal reasons, 72 percent of American respondents thought so, while 80 percent of Britons agreed.

The survey also showed that 63 percent of respondents checked their personal e-mail while at work, and 51 percent of those in the U.S. and 55 percent of those in the U.K. check for updates online when big sporting events are happening.

In the U.S., 34 percent of respondents said they spend at least an hour during each day at work using the Internet for personal reasons, while 35 percent of those in the U.K. said the same.

Still, 85 percent of those in the U.S. and 89 percent of those in the U.K. said they think their use of personal Internet at work is acceptable.

Just 5 percent of respondents in the U.S. and 3 percent of those in the U.K. have been punished for violating Internet use policies.

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