Most Employees Sending Personal E-mails at Work; New Vault Study Reveals E-mail's Increasing Impact in the Workplace.Business/Internet Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 9, 2001 If you send personal e-mails at work, you're not alone. 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. the results from Vault's just-released second-annual E-mail Behavior in the Workplace Survey, 76% 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. send personal e-mails from the workplace. This July, Vault surveyed 901 respondents to determine how e-mail affects productivity, communication and quality-of-life at work. In this year's survey, Vault added new questions on topics including the use of instant messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or , e-mail styles between men and women, and whether or not there should be a penalty for sending spam E-mail that is not requested. Also known as "unsolicited commercial e-mail" (UCE), "unsolicited bulk e-mail" (UBE), "gray mail" and just plain "junk mail," the term is both a noun (the e-mail message) and a verb (to send it). . The survey reveals that a casual attitude towards personal e-mail prevails. When asked if they were worried about their employer monitoring their e-mails, 70% of respondents said no. Respondents' comments on the topic included: - "I never e-mail anything that I wouldn't feel comfortable being read by the CEO of our company, or printed on the front page of the NY Times." - "I would think that people who work here have better things to do with their time than to look at my e-mails." - "No, because everyone writes emails and if one person gets caught, everyone will. The probability of everyone being reprimanded is low." - "Everybody has access to the Internet and if you get your job done right, why would they care about what you are doing when taking a break." About Vault, Inc. Vault, Inc. is the leading media company focused on careers. Vault's primary offering is an online resource, www.vault.com, which offers detailed "insider" information on over 3,000 companies and 70 industries as well as the much-praised Electronic WaterCooler(TM), the Internet's first-ever network of expert-moderated message boards for professionals. Offline, Vault offers six nationally distributed print books, a syndicated newspaper column, and a personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. resume review and career coaching service for job seekers job seeker also job·seek·er n. One who seeks employment. . Vault provides employers and recruiters two services: EmployerVault(TM), a comprehensive online resource, and Vault HR Consulting(TM), a service that helps tackle HR initiatives, including recruiting, retention, conflict resolution and outplacement out·place·ment n. The process of facilitating a terminated employee's search for a new job by provision of professional services, such as counseling, paid for by the former employer. services. |
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