Web time-wasters costing firms £124bn
Employees who surf the web during working hours are costing their employers a collective £124 billion a year, it has been claimed.
Research from search engine Foundem.com discovered that the average British worker spends 90 minutes a day surfing the web at work for personal purposes - the equivalent of 43 days a year.
The study found that shopping is the most popular reason for using the web at work, followed by perusing personal emails and social networking websites. Nearly a fifth of workers have been caught out for their illicit internet activities.
'Brits work the longest hours in Europe, so we expected that people would surf the net for non-work related purposes, although maybe not to this extent,' commented a spokesman for Foundem.com.
A recent study conducted by Queen's University Belfast for SurfControl found that a quarter of employees around the world use their work PCs to download music.
Reproduced from an article published by BCS
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