Your employees are hard at work at their computers and browsing the web. But are they doing it for the company?
Not completely, according to a Web@Work survey (commissioned by Websense - California based provider of employee Internet management solutions).Across eight regions of the world, 83 per cent of respondents said they surfed non-work-related websites during office hours. Chinese office workers are the worst, concludes the survey, because they spend more than one hour a day on personal usage. Specifically, Chinese employees spend 5.6 hours per week on personal Internet usage in the workplace, 1.4 hours more than the average of 4.2 hours for companies in the Asia Pacific region.
While only 26 per cent of workers in India handle personal e-mail during office hours, the figure is a whopping 60 per cent in China.
In other areas, 16 per cent more Chinese devote work time to downloading music than Latin Americans, 8 per cent more to online chatting and 12 per cent more to online games, than the next worst offenders.
Employers in China are taking notice. IT managers across the nation estimate the average weekly time for personal surfing is even higher than the survey's finding - at 6.2 hours!
[People's Daily Online]
2 Comments:
Nowadays, the using of internets depends on the company culture. I saw big EU enterprise (about 20.000 employees) where you have very limited access to the internet. This practice maybe saves costs but kills innovation. The good example of big enterprise where the internet usage is not limited is GOOGLE. The management knows, that only ideas of own employees can make google a internet leader.
OK, but we have to distinguish usage internet for business from private usage. Google is excellent example of modern enterprise closely connected with IT sector, but in other cases?
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