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Various surveys have shown the workers often go online during the workday for reasons related tangentially, if at all, to their jobs. Indeed, some e-commerce sites depend on such workday e-jaunts by worker/consumers. But how do the workers’ employers feel about this?

A survey by Challenger, Gray & Christmas gives a partial indication as it quizzes people on company attitudes toward visits to social-networking sites during office hours. Asked to sum up their own company’s attitude, 47 percent of the workers surveyed said visits to such sites “are not a problem as long as employees’ work gets done.”

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