With an estimated $11 billion spent holiday shopping on Black Friday, which was about a billion bucks over last year. Last year, Cyber Monday broke online sales records, and CareerBuilder’s latest survey shows the trend may continue. Fifty percent of American workers plan to spend time holiday shopping online at work this season – on par with 52% last year. Of these workers, 34% will spend one hour or more shopping, and 16% will spend two or more hours. However, half of U.S. companies say they now monitor Internet and email use of employees, up from 47% last year. Survey highlights:
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65% of workers spend at least some time conducting non-work
related web searches in a typical workday; 22% say they conduct non-work
related web searches at least five times a day.
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22% of employers have fired someone for using the Internet for non-work related activity.
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7% of human resource managers surveyed have fired an employee for holiday shopping.
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54% of employers block employees from accessing certain websites – up from 50% in 2010.
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56% of workers on social networks check their profiles during
their typical workday. Of this group, 15% spend at least one hour a day
browsing.
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32% of employers prohibit employees from communicating about the company on social media.
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61% of workers send non-work related emails during their typical workday; 19% send more than five personal emails a day.
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28% of employers monitor emails and 8% report having fired someone for non-work related emails.
