Friday, March 10, 2006

A survey examining cyber-addiction in the workplace found that a remarkable 25 percent of employees responded in the affirmative when asked about whether they indulged in an addictive Internet activity form workplace. When asked about what forms of Web activities, they believed were most addictive, online gambling was rated as the fifth most addictive activity with eight percent of respondents. It was only behind shopping, news, pornography, and auctions. Another survey of personal managers of companies discloses that seventy-two percent of those surveyed reported to having dealt with some form of Internet abuse. Also, 40 percent of companies had fielded complaints by co-workers about colleagues who wasted time on the Internet. Among those dismissed from work, most were dismissed for pornography, however about eight percent of these complaints were pertaining to Internet misuse related to gambling and accounted for two percent of the overall dismissals. Read further...