More than half of employees admit to inappropriate uses of business E-mail, and IT people are more likely than others to E-mail confidential company info.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
More than half of employees–including many IT workers–admit they misuse company E-mail systems for activities such as swapping lewd jokes, downloading pirated software, responding to spam, or forwarding confidential company information, according to new survey findings released this week.<\/p>\n
Approximately 4,500 people from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany participated in the online survey, “E-Mail Use At Work,” conducted in December by content-security software vendor Clearswift Ltd. <\/p>\n
IT workers are among the culprits circulating inappropriate material, including sexual or discriminatory jokes, the survey finds. Twenty-seven percent of U.S. and German IT personnel admitted distributing inappropriate material to colleagues. A slightly higher percentage of IT workers in the U.K. admitted E-mailing bawdy material, 31%. The U.K. also had the highest percentage–55%–of non-IT workers admitting to participating in such activity.<\/p>\n
IT employees were more likely than non-IT workers overall to admit distributing confidential information via corporate E-mail systems.<\/p>\n
Findings from that same Clearswift survey also revealed that 40% of workers in all three countries admit spending an hour or more every day using company E-mail systems for non-work related activities.<\/p>\n
In the late 1990s, companies began paying more attention to the content coming into their business networks as they battled malicious code such as worms, viruses, and spam, says a Clearswift spokeswoman. Now, the trend among big companies is to pay closer attention to the content coming out of their systems, she says.<\/p>\n
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