Employees prevented from using the internet at work are using their mobile phones to surf in secret or during lunch, new research claims.

More than a quarter (26 per cent) of workers cannot use the internet at all at work, while some employers limit use by banning popular sites like Google and webmail services like Hotmail.

The nationwide study by T-Mobile also showed that almost half of the employees polled (48 per cent) use their mobile phone to access the internet at work while 15 per cent of people regularly take their mobile phone to the toilet to access the internet.

Some 44 per cent who considered mobile internet costs too high and the quarter (25 per cent) of people who do not know how to use their mobile internet service.

A total of 2,000 adults were questioned in the survey, performed by YouGov.

Worksmart, an information portal managed by the Trades Union Congress (TUC), states that employees should be told what company policy is regarding emails and internet use


Thursday, 31st May 2007

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