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It seems like I’m not alone in maintaining my personal online life a little while at work. Burst Media is reporting that workers spend 26.6% of their daily online time at work on personal business with men spending more time on personal things at work (28%) than women (24.2%). Whether the amount of time is growing or decreasing and how it compares against other countries I don’t know and would be interesting to find out.

Burst sees this as a marketing opportunity. I see it as a confirmation of the continued merging of work life and personal life. The fact that only 28.5% feel guilty about using the Internet on company time and a mere 30.5% are concerned their employer might be tracking their at work web usage would seem to bear out the idea that people feel entitled to take care of personal stuff while on the clock.

Information on why folks do personal business while at work and what they are doing is below.

Why Workers Surf the Web For Personal Business While At Work

• 33.8% staying informed during the day
• 20.5% boredom
• 18.5% staying in contact with family and friends
• 16.9% habit
• 16.1% faster connection than at home
• 15.4% best time to conduct online activity
• 11.3% easier access to computer than at home
• 7.3% no computer at home

Popular Online Activities While At Work

• 52.9% sending email/IM to family members or friends
• 51.2% shopping for personal items
• 48.6% checking local or national news
• 42.1% looking up weather information
• 32.3% conducting online banking
• 30.7% looking up health information
• 28.8% looking up travel information
• 23.7% checking sports news/scores
• 23.0% checking entertainment schedules
• 21.2% making travel arrangements
• 20.3% visiting own/friend/family member social networking page
• 19.8% checking financial/investment information
• 18.2% playing an online game
• 17.6% downloading music

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