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Employees plan to spend nearly two full working days (14.4 hours) on average shopping online from a work computer this holiday season, according to a survey conducted for ISACA, an association of 86,000 information technology professionals. One in 10 plans to spend more than 30 hours shopping online at work. Convenience (34%) and boredom (23%) are the biggest motivators.

Despite an economy expected to show flat or declining holiday sales, the second annual "Shopping on the Job: Online Holiday Shopping and Workplace Internet Safety" survey found that half of those surveyed plan to holiday shop online using a work computer.

Dangers of shopping online include viruses, spam and phishing attacks that invade the workplace, resulting in financial losses due to reduced productivity and destruction or compromise of corporate data.


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