Those naughty Brits - @ Work - Brief Article

T+D, August, 2002

A survey of British employees, conducted by Experian, a global information services company, uncovered some pretty shocking news regarding the way Brits (and likely most of the Western world) use email at work. The least of which was that one in six employers had either fired or threatened an employee with disciplinary action for sending inappropriate email at work. The worst of it is that 60 percent of employees admitted to sending email to a co-worker who sits next to them. (I suspect that another 30 percent were probably too embarrassed to admit it.)

Other interesting tidbits revealed by the survey: Sixty percent of office workers admitted to reading personal email while on the job (done that); 33 percent had sent embarrassing email to the wrong person (done that, too); and another third admitted to having a cyber relationship with another professional whom they've never met (do I need to say it?).