November 2008
Tuesday November 25, 2008
Posted by: eyoung at 9:19AM CST on November 25, 2008
Your boss thinks you’re hammering away at that important proposal due next week. In reality? You’re clicking through Amazon.com, getting a head start on your holiday shopping. According to a new survey by CareerBuilder.com, nearly one-third of workers (29 percent) plan to holiday shop online while at work this year. But buyer beware: Half of employees report they monitor the use of employees. The survey was conducted Aug. 21-Sept. 9 among more than 5,600 U.S. workers and more than 3,000 hiring managers and human resources professionals. Cyber Monday Seasonal online shopping is expected to ramp up on Cyber Monday — a term coined by the National Retail Federation for the first Monday following Thanksgiving — and productivity in the workplace is sure to be impacted. Of those who plan to shop online while at work this season, 43 percent of workers anticipate spending more than one hour, 23 percent said they will spend two hours or more, and 13 percent will spend three hours or more. "While employers are unlikely to terminate workers for online holiday shopping during the workday, employees should proactively police their personal Internet usage," said Rosemary Haefner, vice president of human resources for CareerBuilder.com. "In addition, employees need to be aware of company Internet policies, as more than a quarter of employers surveyed monitor workers’ time spent online and sites visited. Employees can then determine if it is best to designate their lunch hour or break times for online holiday shopping." Other findings: • 61 percent of workers use the Internet for non-work related research and activities while they are at work. Among these workers, 37 percent said they spend an average of more than 30 minutes of their workday on non-work related online activities; 18 percent said they spend an average of an hour or more. • 20 percent of workers send six or more non-work related e-mails per day. Among this group, 22 percent spend more than 30 minutes during the typical workday doing so. • 9 percent of workers surveyed have a personal blog, and 23 percent of them spend time blogging at work. • 41 percent of workers surveyed have a MySpace, Facebook or other social networking page; 35 percent of them spend time on their social networking page during the workday. Source: PRNewswire, CareerBuilder.com Thursday November 13, 2008
Posted by: eyoung at 11:41AM CST on November 13, 2008
PRNewswire
Do you feel like you’re married to your job? How about to your co-worker? According to a recent CareerBuilder.com survey, one in 10 workers said they feel like they have a work spouse — someone whom they are not married to but feel like they are married to at the office.
Among these workers who are married, 20 percent reported that their actual spouse or significant other gets jealous of their platonic work spouse. Another 17 percent said they had to compromise something at the office to protect their work spouse.
The survey includes more than 6,194 workers nationwide.
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This survey was conducted online within the U.S. by Harris Interactive on behalf of CareerBuilder.com among 6,194 employees (employed full-time; not self-employed) between Aug. 21 and Sept. 9. |
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