BizRate.com Flash Survey: More Employees Shopping Online at Work.Business Editors/Technology Writers LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 25, 2000 It's Monday morning at the office ... does your boss know you're shopping online? 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 Flash survey(a) by BizRate.com (www.bizrate.com), 70 percent of respondents In the context of marketing research, a representative sample drawn from a larger population of people from whom information is collected and used to develop or confirm marketing strategy. shop online during the weekdays -- with 40 percent admitting to conducting the majority of their shopping on the Web on the weekdays between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Nearly three-quarters of those shopping at work assume their bosses are aware of their online activities. "The combination of the longer work day and the added advantage of faster Internet connections at most corporate offices make shopping at work a growing phenomenon," said Seth Geiger, vice president of professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. at BizRate.com. The truth behind Staff Shoppers: -- Mondays and Tuesdays are peak shopping days, according to 50 percent of surveyed shoppers -- Peak hours: Tuesday from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m., according to nine percent of surveyed shoppers -- More managers (30 percent) than staff (24 percent) approve of shopping online during work hours -- More than half of surveyed shoppers work more than 40 hours a week About BizRate.com Founded in 1996 and based in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , BizRate.com (www.bizrate.com) is the No. 1 retail mall on the Web (according to Media Metrix, August 2000), connecting millions of buyers to thousands of sellers in a single, organized location. Designed as a shopping hub, the site provides the best efficiencies for both online buyers and sellers. In the BizRate.com C3 Marketplace, shoppers have access to a powerful product search engine, single-click check-out, exclusive deals, "hot" product listings and gift guides to empower empower verb To encourage or provide a person with the means or information to become involved in solving his/her own problems consumers to "shop smartly" across 19 popular store categories and thousands of merchants. Through BizRate.com's rating system, compiled exclusively from point-of-sale and fulfillment ful·fill also ful·fil tr.v. ful·filled, ful·fill·ing, ful·fills also ful·fils 1. To bring into actuality; effect: fulfilled their promises. 2. surveys of participating merchants, shoppers can compare merchants across 10 service dimensions. BizRate.com ratings appear on Consumer Reports Online and in Consumer Reports magazine, as well as on Microsoft Network See MSN. Microsoft Network - The Microsoft Network , AltaVista, GO Network, Go2Net, Snap, Citibank, iChoose, Brodia and CNET (body) CNET - Centre national d'Etudes des Telecommunications. The French national telecommunications research centre at Lannion. . The BizRate.com C3 Marketplace is a featured addition to Fleet Bank Services online site. BizRate.com experts are available to add commentary to your articles. To schedule an interview with a BizRate.com research expert, contact Lori Putnam, 310/305-3506, ext. 186, lputnam@bizrate.com or Julie Mathis, 323/866-6039, jmathis@mslpr.com (a) Flash Survey conducted Aug. 28-29, 2000 |
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