Employment Law Alliance survey shows employees using work computers for romantic or sexual activity
Friday, February 27 2004
Nearly one-quarter of Americans said they or their co-workers use computers at work to engage in sexually explicit online activity, ranging from visiting X-rated Web sites to participating in steamy chat rooms, according to the latest America at Work national survey by the Employment Law Alliance.
Louis P. DiLorenzo, co-chair of Bond, Schoeneck & King's labor and employment law department and an ELA representative, said the latest findings are important because the poll is among the first to gauge the extent to which employees are using company computers for not just personal but romantic purposes.
Every American workplace has a story to tell about the casual use of company computers for personal purposes, and many of those stories reflect fairly benign behavior such as online shopping, said DiLorenzo. But now we get a clear and compelling insight into the significant use of workplace computers for romantic/sexual purposes.
DiLorenzo, whose department of 51 labor and employment lawyers are spread throughout Buffalo, Syracuse and Albany - and New York City and Long Island beginning March 1 - found these:
