How important is your Internet access?

Report shows that workers like it as much as coffee.

Websense, a company that produces employee Internet management software, released the results of its annual Web@Work survey on Wednesday. The survey, which was completed by Harris Interactive, shows some interesting information on employee computer habits. 500 full-time employees from companies that employ a minimum of 100 people were asked a variety of questions by telephone, and 350 I.T. managers were asked other questions about how they think workers at their companies use their computers. 

The results of the survey are pretty interesting:

1. 49% of employees said they would rather have access to the Internet for personal use than access to coffee.

2. 17% of employees use instant messaging programs at work, and only one-third of companies condone IM usage at work.

3. 21% of employees admitted to using streaming video or audio at work, but only 6% said that they have saved files to their work computer.

4. News sites are the websites accessed the most at work (84%), with travel sites (64%), personal e-mail (56%), shopping (55%), and online banking (53%) following behind.

5. The average amount of time employees said that they spend surfing the Internet for personal reasons at work is 2 hours per week, but the I.T. managers surveyed averaged employees' personal Web surfing at 6 hours per week.

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