I know it’s a Friday and you’ve already checked your email 10 times in hope of something to distract you from actual work, so the news that workers spend a quarter of their office time slacking off isn’t terribly surprising for you. A “network security consultant firm” called Voco reports that workers spend about 25 percent of their time at the office doing non-work-related tasks. That includes everything from browsing eBay to obsessively refreshing Facebook to using online dating sites. They blame “tech-savvy” employees in particular for abusing privileges, although I’m pretty sure their definition of “tech-savvy” means “knows how to use the innertubes thing the kids keep talking about these days.”
Here is the best part of the entire writeup:
Sometimes, employees also make use of company resources to engage in nefarious activities, like downloading movies and music over P2P. According to Voco’s data, for example, many of the prerelease downloads of Hellboy: The Golden Army were over corporate networks. Not only does this consume bandwidth meant for business, it also opens up corporate networks to spyware, adware, and other challenges for network security.
Ha ha ha, “nefarious.” And, honestly, who really cared about Hellboy 2? This just sounds fake.
If you’d like to spend some of your allotted 25 percent of the day slacking off by reading the full results of the survey, they’re here in all their nefarious glory.