Internet use for personal work spoiling relationship between employers, employees

Gurgaon (Haryana), Aug.8 (ANI): A new survey has indicated that employees using the Internet for personal work during office hours is spoiling their relationship with their employers and senior management staff.

Carried out by the web site MyHiringClub.com, the survey of 22658 employees and 3296 hiring managers and senior executives from India, Gulf, Middle East and Singapore found that 62 percent of employers in India are monitoring the internet usage of their employees.

In the Gulf and other parts of the Middle East, the figure was 49 percent, while in Singapore, it was 77 percent.

From the employees point of view, the survey revealed that in India 59 percent admitted tousing there personal internet or official internet for completing personal works in working hours.

In the Gulf and other parts of the Middle East, the figure was 37 percent, while in Singapore, it was 53 percent.

"Employees need to be mindful of company policies on internet usage and should designate their lunch hour or break times for shopping excursions or other non-work related activities. Internet use at work place for non-work related activities negatively impacts on productivity" said Rajesh Kumar, CEO, MyHiringClub.com.

According to the survey, 73 percent of employees use the internet for non-work related research and activities while they are at work. Among these employees, 31 percent spend on average more than two hours of their workday on non-work related online activities and 11 percent spend more than two hours.

It further said that 72 percent of employees say they send non-work related emails at work, with 23 percent saying they send six or more personal emails per day.

About 27 percent of employees report they send instant messages while at work. Of those who using IM at work, 45 percent say IM makes them more productive.

It said that 42 percent of employees have a social networking profile. 57 percent of those with a profile spend more than hours time per day on their social networking page during the workday with 12 percent spending less than an hour time.

MyHiringClub.com is Asia's and the Gulf/Middle East's largest recruitment tendering platform, having operations in India, Gulf / Middle East and Singapore.

It is neither a job portal nor a recruitment agency. It is an enterprise application for employers and recruitment agencies to efficiently manage job transactions through innovative candidate and vendor management modules. (ANI)