CNNfn had four times the reach in the workplace than its
reach to home users (Nielsen//Net Ratings).
Work users went online on average 41 times a day, compared
to 18 times a day among home users (Nielsen//Net Ratings).
Web users at the office take advantage of high-speed
connections to access broadband entertainment sites such as Broadcast.com and
MP3 more frequently than at home (Nielsen//Net Ratings).
Surfers access news, information and finance sites much more
frequently during the workday than at night so that they can keep up with
breaking news or the markets (Nielsen//Net Ratings).
Online shopping is dominated by Amazon.com and eBay both at
home and at the office. Only 5.7 million workers visit eBay, compared with 21.5
million for the most-visited site, Yahoo. But eBay visitors stay at the auction
site the longest, almost three hours (Nielsen//Net Ratings).
During work hours: 9% of employees earning under $35K surf
the Net for a new job, while 11% of workers earning $75K to $100K do the same
(Greenfield Online).
Charles Schwab reveals that 72% of its customers plan to buy
or sell mutual funds over the next six months, and 92% plan to do so online
during work hours.
82% of U.S. business executives surveyed by the consulting
firm Dataquest (a division of the Gartner Group) believe Internet use should be
monitored at their companies (InformationWeek Online).
31.2% of employees feel it is appropriate to surf
non-work-related sites up to 30 minutes a day, 14.8% said up to 1 hour is
appropriate, and 9% said over an hour, while only 26.6% of employers feel it is
appropriate for employees to surf non-work-related sites up to 30 minutes, 8.6%
said up to 1 hour, and 4.2% said over an hour (Vault.com survey).
37.1% of employees said they surf the Web constantly at
work, 31.9% said a few times a day, 21.3% said a few times a week, and only
9.7% said never (Vault.com survey).
28.83% said that their employer had caught them surfing
non-work-related sites, although 54% of employers said that they have caught an
employee surfing non-work-related sites at work (Vault.com survey).
24.3% of employees said they take precautionary measures to
avoid detection (Vault.com survey).
56.5% of employees feel that surfing the Net or sending
non-work-related e-mails decreases productivity, and 31% of employers said that
they restrict employee Internet/e-mail usage (Vault.com survey).
The cost to businesses from Internet broadcasts of the
October 1998 Starr report was in excess of $450 million (ZDNet).
More than half of all requests on search engines are
"adult-oriented" (United Adult Sites).
The top 3 word searches on the Internet: 1) sex; 2)
mp3; 3) hotmail (Wordtracker.com).
