Personal Use of Company Tech Disrupts Work
Personal Choice
67% of employees who work on company-provided computers use the machines for personal or non-work-related content.
Partial Commitment
68% said they’re very familiar with their company’s policy on the personal use of company computers, but only 40% follow the policy to the letter. About half do so most of the time.
Personal Activities on Work Computers
Going to social media sites: 36%, Shopping: 34%, Working on a second job/home business: 19%, Playing games online: 19%, Looking for a new job: 14%
Risky Business
16% admit that they call up content that is considered NSFW (Not Safe For Work).
SOS
More than one-quarter said they’ve needed someone from the IT department to fix a computer issue that was caused by a non-work-related activity.
Immediate Fallout
17% caused network downtime by visiting a questionable Website, and 12% said such an action prompted new IT usage policies. 10% said it resulted in the loss of data/intellectual property.
Enterprise View
36% of employees who use company-provided computers said they’re concerned about their company’s ability to monitor their personal activity on these computers.
Capable Crew
70% believe that an IT admin can just as easily monitor usage on a work-issued tablet as they can on a traditional computer.
Surreptitious Storage
About half said they save work data (including customer lists and other confidential information) to personal cloud-based file-sharing services.
Possessive Nature, Part I
62% of respondents said they would take personal files, such as photos and multimedia, from their work computer if they left their job.
Possessive Nature, Part II
15% said they’d take low-level documents from their work computer if they left their job, and 12% said they’d take high-level docs, such as client lists and financial info. Only 30% said they’d take nothing.
