According to a recent Jupiter Media Metrix report, the at-work usage of standalone
media players in the US increased by 34.9% between January 2000 and January
2001, from 11.6 million to 15.7 million users.
The No. 1 search term used at search engine sites is the
word "sex," according to Alexa Research . Users searched for
"sex" more than other terms such as "games,"
"travel," "music," "jokes," "cars,"
"weather," "health" and "jobs" combined. The
study also found that "pornography/porno" was the fourth-most
searched for subject.
Secret monitoring by the U.S. Treasury Department of
Internet use among Internal Revenue Service employees found that activities
such as personal e-mail, online chats, shopping and checking personal finances
and stocks accounted for 51 percent of employees' time spent online. The top
non-work Web activity favored by IRS employees was going to financial sites.
Chat and email ran a close second, followed by miscellaneous activities (which
included visiting adult sites), search requests, and looking at or downloading
streaming media (reported in the Chicago Tribune and Business 2.0).
IWon was the domain most visited by at-work surfers, with an
average of about 16 visits per at-work surfer per month, according to
Nielsen//NetRatings data for January 2001. Surfers at this sweepstakes/portal,
on average, looked at 210 pages and spent more than an hour and 40 minutes at
the site during the month (reported in Business 2.0).
Users of online auctioneer eBay Inc. at work spent 157
minutes at the site in January compared with 126 minutes while at home. Long a
favorite among at-work surfers, eBay ranked 7th among the most-visited sites
for at-work surfers. However, eBay ranks first in terms of average pages per person
and time spent per month, at almost 300 pages and two hours per person.
(Nielsen//NetRatings, as reported by Reuters and Business 2.0).
Napster music swapping software was found on about 20% of
over 15,000 work PCs examined (eMarketer.com)
Internet streaming media is beginning to gush, and figures
to nearly double the market for servers capable of delivering video and audio
between now and 2005, according to a study by the Cahners In-Stat group.
(eMarketer.com)
28% of those who made gift purchases did so from their
offices or cubicles (Pew Internet & American Life Project).
32% of those who have Internet access at work used the
Internet while on the job to buy holiday gifts, while only 24% of Internet
users as a whole purchased gifts online. This suggests that people are taking
advantage of fast connections at work (Pew Internet & American Life
Project).
Workers spend an average of 21 hours online at the office
vs. an average of 9.5 hours at home (Nielsen/Net Ratings).
70% of all Internet porn traffic occurs during the 9-to-5
workday (SexTracker).
Employees earning $75,000 to $100,000 annually are twice as
likely to download pornography at work than those earning less than $35,000
(eMarketer.com).
32.6% of workers have no specific objective when they surf
the Internet (eMarketer.com).
One in five men and one in eight women admitted using their
work computers as their primary lifeline to access sexual explicit material
online (MSNBC).
