Report: Your Office Cube-Mate is Stalking Your Facebook Wall

It's the worst kept secret in the workplace, that employees spend company time on social media sites. Now we know what exactly they're doing behind those cubicle walls: stalking you on Facebook.

It’s the worst kept secret in the workplace, that employees spend company time on social media sites. Now we know what exactly they’re doing behind those cubicle walls: stalking you on Facebook.

88 percent of employees spend their time lurking on Facebook, watching and reading others’ pages instead of actively posting own their own, according to a new survey from computer security firm Palo Alto Networks.

This kind of ‘voyeurism,’ the study reports, presents a number of risks, including “potential loss of productivity and the possibility of malware introduction by clicking on a link within someone’s wall.”

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