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Benefits April 21, 2011
One-Third Admit to Using Work E-mail Inappropriately
April 21, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Thirty-two percent of respondents to a recent survey said they feel they use their company email inappropriately.
Reported by Rebecca Moore
According to the research from Lightning Tools, a Microsoft SharePoint solutions provider, more than two-fifths (41%) of the respondents who admitted to using their work e-mail inappropriately explained that they had used it for sending ‘funny images’ to colleagues. Nearly half (48%) stated that they had used it to ‘gossip’ with their co-workers.
In addition, 11% of the respondents who admitted to using work e-mail inappropriately admitted to ‘flirting’ with other employees in some way, with one respondent claiming to have sent nude images to another employee.
Seventeen percent said they had used work e-mail to plan ‘social arrangements’ that would take place outside of the office.
Lightning Tools surveyed 1,238 company e-mail users.« Mutual of Omaha Adds Funds to Retirement Services Platform