83.7% of Workers Admit to Sending Personal Emails during Workday; Vault.com Unveils Report of Internet Use and Abuse at the Office

Business Wire, Oct 26, 1999

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 26, 1999--

A surprising 83.7% of employees say that they send personal e-mails at some point during the workday, according to a new survey conducted by Vault.com, The Workplace Network(TM) (http://www.Vault.com).

These survey results are part of a groundbreaking new 34-page study entitled the Vault.com Survey of Internet Use in the Workplace. This study is the first-ever comprehensive study of the effect of web and e-mail use at work.

The survey reveals that employees are overwhelmingly using their e-mail access as a means of personal communication. The majority of those polled said they send e-mails at least 1-5 times per day (46.7%), while some said they send more than twenty per day (1.6%)!

Those surveyed were also asked to comment on the phenomenon. Responses include:

- "A few e-mails to friends are a good way to keep people happy in

the workplace."

- "I always use e-mail - it is much quicker and can be fitted in

when I am not busy."

- "It's often the only time I can communicate with friends because

I'm at the office all day and night."

- "I do not want my personal e-mails archived on the company's

server."

- "We are not permitted to use the Internet at work for non-work

related e-mails...if we do we could be fired."

The 34-page study is based on responses from 1,244 employees and 1,438 employers. Respondents were surveyed on topics ranging from an employer's right to monitor employee's Web use to the Internet's effect on productivity.

For a copy of the full 34-page Vault.com Survey of Internet Use in the Workplace, contact Kate Kaibni at kkaibni@staff.vault.com.

In addition to studying workplace issues, Vault.com is well known for its award-winning "insider" company and industry profiles on companies such as Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO), America Online (NYSE: AOL), Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Disney (NYSE: DIS), and Merrill Lynch (NYSE: MER).

About Vault.com

Vault.com (formerly VaultReports.com), The Workplace Network(TM), is the Internet's leading destination for career information. Vault.com's mission is to help professionals advance their careers through "insider" career information, online networking, online courses, job listings, and more. Recently named "Best of the Best Sites" and "the best way to scope out potential employers" by Yahoo! Internet Life, Vault.com provides "insider" guides on over 3,000 companies and 70 industries. It also offers the much-praised Electronic WaterCooler(TM), the Internet's first-ever network of company-specific message boards for employees. In addition, Vault.com offers a free job board that contains over 170,000 job postings - one of the largest job databases on the Internet. Vault.com was founded in 1996 by H.S. Hamadeh, Samer Hamadeh, and Mark Oldman, recent graduates of Stanford and Wharton.