MEDIA CENTER

WEB@WORK 2006—EMPLOYEE COMPUTING TRENDS SURVEY

Web@Work is a comprehensive annual survey of internet and application usage in the workplace. By surveying both employees and IT managers, the study reveals unique insights on employees’ surfing habits as well as IT managers’ perspective on the top network problems facing today’s organizations. Web@Work is commissioned by Websense, Inc. and conducted by Harris Interactive®. This is the seventh annual Web@Work survey.

• View the Gender Differences press release.
• View the Employee Computing Trends Survey press release.
• View the Employee Computing Trends Survey analysis.

Here are some of the findings:

GENDER DIFFERENCES

• As in previous years, men are more likely than women to engage in personal surfing at work. Almost two-thirds (65 percent) of men who access the Internet at work admitted to accessing non work-related websites during work hours vs. 58 percent of women.
• Men are more likely than women to view pornography at work. Whether it was by accident or on purpose, 16 percent of men who access the internet at work said they had visited a porn site while at work, while only 8 percent of women had done so.
• Among those who access the Internet, men are more likely than women to access weather, sports, investment/stock, and blog sites.