Internet has made our lives easy but on the other hand
if you are constantly using Internet at work for your personal use, you might
be putting yourself on the verge of getting fired. How? Do you happen
to use your internet at work to check your personal email? Do you read daily
news at work? Do you visit your social networking website and update it? Well I
am sure, most of you replied yes to one or more of these questions. A survey
conducted by Vault.com reports that, 25% of the employees use the Internet for
personal use during office hours for at least 10 minutes each day. 13% of the
employees use it for at least 2 hours every day. Employers are being very vigilant
and do not want the employees to waste their valuable time on internet while on
job. The employers also do not want their employees to use inappropriate or bad
language in email or transfer confidential data, which might hamper the
business and cause huge financial losses.
A survey of 304 US companies by the American Management Association (AMA)
and the ePolicy Institute claims
that the reasons for the firing were:
64% email
misuse including violation of company policy
62% use of
bad language in emails
50% use of
inappropriate NSFW (not safe for work) content
34%
disproportionate “personal use”
The survey also claims that 66 per cent of the
employers monitor the websites their employees visited whereas 65 per cent used
various kinds of web nanny software to block undesirable content. 43 per cent
employers said they even went through employees personal files.
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