Shopping Online on Company Time Will Be Prevalent This Holiday, Tech Workers, Employers Agree
Tech workers and their employers agree online shopping on company time will be prevalent this holiday and that it will sap productivity on the job, two Robert Half Technology surveys found. The tech staffing firm canvassed 2,800 employees and found…
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52 percent admitted to plans for “workshopping” this holiday on a company computer, it said Wednesday. Of those, 44 percent admitted the practice will hinder their productivity during normal work hours, it said. Robert Half also polled 2,800 tech company “decision makers” in 28 U.S. markets and found 77 percent acknowledging workshopping goes on under their watch, with 52 percent saying they wish it would stop. Cybersecurity risks (59 percent) and loss of productivity (34 percent) were cited as the top workshopping “concerns” among tech managers. Other findings: (1) More men (58 percent) than women (48 percent) plan to shop online from work this holiday; (2) Workshopping is more prevalent among working parents (62 percent) than among employees without children (39 percent); (3) Half of all workshoppers said they will spend between 30 and 60 minutes a week shopping on the job this holiday, and 20 percent will engage in the practice for more than an hour a week.