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Employee Monitoring Statistics
IDC
estimates that the worldwide market for employee monitoring software has
increased from $62 million in 1999 to $214 million in 2001. It further
expects this figure to grow to $655 million by 2005 which is an increase of
1056% over six years.
An integral part of the network security market,
employee monitoring is growing at a rapid pace, especially when it means
recouping potential lost productivity, which cost businesses an estimated
$357,000 per company in 2000 according to an industry survey.
Check out these statistics
below :
• Non-work
related Internet surfing results in up to a 40% loss in productivity each year
at American businesses.
- Gartner Group
• 85.6% of employees use office email for personal reasons.
- NFO Worldwide
• 70% of all web traffic to Internet pornography sites occurs during the work
hours of 9am-5pm.
- Sex Tracker
• 92% of online stock trading occurs from the workplace during work hours.
• 64% of employees have received politically incorrect or offensive emails at
work.
- Business Week
• 30% of American workers watch sports online while at work.
• 24% of American workers admit to shopping online while at work.
• Employees use company high-speed Internet access to visit sites such as
Broadcast.com and MP3.com more frequently at work than they do at home because
of the high-speed Internet access at work.
-Nielsen Ratings
•
30 to 40%
of Internet use in the workplace is not related to business.
- IDC Research
• 70% of all Internet porn traffic occurs during
the nine-to-five work day.
- SexTracker
•
37% of workers say they surf the Web constantly
at work.
- Vault.com
• People are spending more time surfing the Internet at
work than they are at home, mainly because home Web connection speeds pale in
comparison to the faster connections that companies give their employees.
- ZDNet
Interactive Investor, 2/18/00
• 77.7%
of major U.S. companies keep tabs on employees by checking their e-mail,
Internet, phone calls, computer files, or by videotaping them at work.
- American Management
Association
• 63% of companies monitor workers' Internet connections and 47% store and
review employee e-mail.
- American Management Association
•
27% of companies say that they've fired
employees for misuse of office e-mail or Internet connections, and 65% report
some disciplinary measure for those offenses.
- American Management Association • Misuse of the Internet among employees has become a
major concern, especially within the last few years. We offer the tools to
assist you in monitoring and protecting your corporate presence.
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