Most US Workers Online at Work, 50% Check Work Email on Weekends


	Most US Workers Online at Work, 50% Check Work Email on Weekends

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2eaf468c-eaed-4280-be26-b16c9825d7ae/C71E89EB-18E0-4FB2-A6AD-A3654EBCC640/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.marketingcharts.com/direct/most-us-workers-online-at-work-50-check-work-email-on-weekends-6200/pew-internet-networked-workers-usage-home-work-activities-march-april-2008jpg/" href="http://www.marketingcharts.com/direct/most-us-workers-online-at-work-50-check-work-email-on-weekends-6200/pew-internet-networked-workers-usage-home-work-activities-march-april-2008jpg/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.marketingcharts.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.marketingcharts.com/direct/most-us-workers-online-at-work-50-check-work-email-on-weekends-6200/pew-internet-networked-workers-usage-home-work-activities-march-april-2008jpg/"><H2><A rev="attachment" href="http://www.marketingcharts.com/direct/most-us-workers-online-at-work-50-check-work-email-on-weekends-6200/">Most US Workers Online at Work, 50% Check Work Email on Weekends</A></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.marketingcharts.com/direct/most-us-workers-online-at-work-50-check-work-email-on-weekends-6200/pew-internet-networked-workers-usage-home-work-activities-march-april-2008jpg/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.marketingcharts.com/img/1F6A4B80-0EC2-43DC-9B47-C122879A6A87" alt="pew-internet-networked-workers-usage-home-work-activities-march-april-2008.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.marketingcharts.com/direct/most-us-workers-online-at-work-50-check-work-email-on-weekends-6200/pew-internet-networked-workers-usage-home-work-activities-march-april-2008jpg/"><P>Fully 72% of employed adults in the US use the internet and email at least sometimes while they are at work, and 50% of those email users say they check their email on weekends, <A href="http://www.pewinternet.org/press_release.asp?r=308">according to</A> a <A href="http://pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Networked_Workers_FINAL.pdf">report</A> from the <A href="http://www.pewresearch.org">Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life project</A>. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.marketingcharts.com/direct/most-us-workers-online-at-work-50-check-work-email-on-weekends-6200/pew-internet-networked-workers-usage-home-work-activities-march-april-2008jpg/"><P>The number of workers who report playing online games or working on their own journal or blog while at work is negligible. One in 10 workers say they contribute writing, files, or other content to their employer’s website; 6% say they use instant message applications. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.marketingcharts.com/direct/most-us-workers-online-at-work-50-check-work-email-on-weekends-6200/pew-internet-networked-workers-usage-home-work-activities-march-april-2008jpg/"><P>Some 22% of employed email users say they are expected to read and respond to work-related emails, even when they are not at work. Blackberry and PDA owners are more than twice as likely to report that their employer expects that they will stay tuned in to email outside of the office. Fully 48% say they are required to read and respond to email when they are away from work.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C71E89EB-18E0-4FB2-A6AD-A3654EBCC640/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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