Employees are far more likely to be addicted to news than to pornography, a survey has found. Websense, a San Diego-based firm which provides software to monitor Web habits at work, has found that news sites are proving the real Internet addiction for employees. It has to be said, of course, that most companies block access to porn sites. Just over 20 per cent of those surveyed said that they thought news was the most addictive Web content, compared to 18 per cent for pornography and 8 per cent for gambling sites. Nearly 70 per cent admitted surfing news sites for personal reasons. Only 2 per cent confess to looking at pornography at work. Web obsession at work is still a real problem with a quarter of employees confessing to feeling addicted. It is estimated that it will cost an organisation of 1,000 employees an average of £ 30m each year if all its workers surfed for non-work related content for just an hour a day.
story | BBC
related:
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/09/overcoming-news-addiction/
http://mattinglot.com/blog/2006/09/28/feeding-news-addiction/
http://www.alkadwivedi.net/2006/09/26/news-reading/
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=342373
http://www.smallvoices.net/wordpress/2005/09/22/news-addiction/
~I'm addicted to doing the minimum amount of work my job requires.
Posted by Stubbornson at October 26, 2006 07:28 AM