Private online activities at work- Kaspersky Report

Nowadays it is hardly imaginable for many people to be separated from their smartphone for several hours – not even while working. That private surfing can also prove fatal may have been experienced by some of you. The Kaspersky study now reveals interesting details about the private use of the Internet during working hours.

One message here, exciting news there – again and again the look goes to the smartphone. Or to the web browser. But the fact that you should concentrate on your work is quickly forgotten. The need to always be up to date, to get all the exciting news and to answer your friends quickly is not the worst thing, but at work it’s better to ignore. In Kaspersky Lab’s Global Privacy Study, four out of five Germans stated that they were online several times a day during working hours. 67 percent of them don’t want their employer to get wind of it either. Just over half of the participants (58%) also hide their private use of the Internet from their colleagues.

“The fact that work and private life are increasingly merging is neither good nor bad, but reflects life in the digital age” explains Marina Titova, Consumer Product Manager at Kaspersky Lab.