Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places

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Today I wrote about how one in five employees currently use company resources to look up porn, gamble online, check on their favorite sports, read personal e-mail, shop on eBay and hook up through an online dating service. Interestingly, those who work in manufacturing are most likely to go looking for love right under their bosses' noses. And lest one think it's a man thing, consider also that engineers, another heavily male field, are among the most behaved when it comes to their work Web surfing. I'm not surprised by the findings, given the long hours we now all work and the Web-enabled mobile devices we now are issued to keep at it once we're home.

Report: Looking for love in all the wrong places

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