By Gee-Woo Bock, Swee Ling Ho
Communications of the ACM,
April 2009,
Vol. 52 No. 4, Pages 124-128
10.1145/1498765.1498799
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The internet is becoming a commodity in organizations with an increase in accessibility by professionals from their own work desks. Vault.com conducted a survey in 1999 with 1,244 respondents, and found that 84% of employees sent non-work related emails and almost 90% surfed the Internet for non-work related purposes during office hours. However, the effect of the use of the Internet for non-work purposes is inconclusive.
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