1 in 8 Employees Admit to Taking Contacts from E-mail Lists; Vault.com Survey Uncovers Latest Networking Resource.Business & High-Tech Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 20, 2000 According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a recent study by Vault.com, e-mail distribution lists have become one of the most popular networking resources for today's professionals. As part of its recently released Survey of E-mail Behavior in the Workplace, Vault.com asked over 1,000 employees whether they had ever contacted someone off another person's e-mail distribution list. Surprisingly, more than one in eight (12.6%) of those employees surveyed admitted to using others' e-mail lists to contact possible business clients, potential friends, or others with whom they previously had no contact. When asked to explain this electronic form of networking, respondents' comments included the following: -- "I'm a recruiter; it's my job." -- "I was looking for a job and contacted a potential employer." -- "If the sender really wanted to keep the list confidential, he/she would not have sent the e-mail with the names and addresses revealed." -- "It is the same as looking someone's phone number up in the phone book." -- "It's an easy way to build an address book." -- "I believe in networking." In addition to the 12.6% of the individuals who have admitted appropriating the e-mail addresses See Internet address. e-mail address - electronic mail address of people they didn't know, 50.2% have contacted people that they had been in contact with previously. These results are part of the first-ever-comprehensive survey of e-mail behavior in the workplace. The Vault.com Survey of E-mail Behavior in the Workplace covers issues such as e-mail monitoring, use of the "Bcc" feature, intra-office communications and other trends surrounding today's workplace since the advent of e-mail. Vault.com is also well known for its award-winning "insider" company and industry profiles on companies such as Microsoft (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ), Disney (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : DIS (Data Instrumentation Systems) See DST. Dis god of nether world; identified with Pluto. [Rom. Myth.: Leach, 315] See : Underworld ), Bank One (NYSE: ONE) and AT&T (NYSE: T). About Vault.com Vault.com (formerly VaultReports.com), The Workplace Network(TM), is the Internet's leading destination for career and HR information. Vault.com's mission is to help professionals advance their careers through "insider" career information, online networking, online courses, job listings, and more. Recently named one of the "100 Best Sites for 2000" and "the best way to scope out potential employers" by Yahoo! Internet Life Yahoo! Internet Life was a monthly magazine published by Ziff-Davis, which licensed the name from Yahoo!, a well known search engine website. It was created and launched by Barry Golson, the former executive editor of Playboy and TV guide. , Vault.com provides "insider" guides on over 3,000 companies and 70 industries. It also offers the much-praised Electronic WaterCooler(TM), the Internet's first-ever network of expert-moderated message boards for employees. In addition, Vault.com offers a free job board that contains over 200,000 job postings - one of the largest job databases on the Internet. Vault.com was founded in 1997 by H.S. Hamadeh, Samer Hamadeh, and Mark Oldman Mark Stanford Oldman (1969- ) is an American entrepreneur and wine personality. In 1997, Oldman founded Vault.com, formerly Vault Reports, a popular recruitment company. He is co-president and director of Vault. , together recently named to the "Silicon Alley An area in New York that has become known for its companies devoted to multimedia and the Internet. It is located in Manhattan's "Soho" district, which does not stand for Small Office Home Office, rather it is SOuth of HOuston Street. 100: New York's 100 Most Influential Internet Executives." |
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