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IT Job Board: European techies feel no guilt at using work time for
personal tasks finds The IT Job Board; Online recruitment specialist
carries out first comparative survey across the UK, Belgium and The
Netherlands
(M2 PressWIRE Via Acquire Media NewsEdge)
RDATE:13102008
Three quarters (76.1 percent) of IT professionals in the UK do not feel
guilty about carrying out personal tasks while they are at work,
according to a major new survey undertaken by The IT Job Board,
www.theitjobboard.co.uk. The figure compares to 75.9 percent in Belgium
and 81.6 percent in The Netherlands. This is the first time the online
recruitment specialist has undertaken comparative research across the
three countries.
Phone calls, emails and chat About 50 percent of people in each region
said they made personal phone calls. Sending non-work emails was
undertaken by 61.4 percent of IT professionals in the UK, 63 percent in
Belgium and 53.7 percent in The Netherlands. However it appears that
the Brits are least sociable when it comes to face-to-face contact at
work. In Belgium, 80.2 percent of IT professionals chat with colleagues
during work hours. This figure is 72.1 percent in The Netherlands, but
only 59 percent in the UK.
Underworked or underpaid? When asked why they used work time for
personal tasks, 17.4 percent of people in the UK, 18.1 percent in
Belgium and 14.3 percent in The Netherlands said it was because they
didn't have enough work to do. However, almost one in ten (8.8 percent)
of IT professionals in the UK reasoned that it was because were
underpaid for the amount of work they did. This fell to 7.2 percent in
Belgium and 4.8 percent in The Netherlands.
Blocking internet access 79.3 percent of people in the UK, 88 percent
of people in Belgium and 92.5 percent of people in The Netherlands
spend up to 30 minutes per day surfing the internet for personal
reasons. But despite this, at least two thirds (60.4 percent in the UK,
71.1 percent in Belgium and 66 percent in The Netherlands) agreed that
companies should be able to manage or block access to certain websites.
Facebook Despite media coverage about how many working hours are lost
to Facebook, using Hotmail and Yahoo ranked more highly in The IT Job
Board's survey, suggesting that employees spend more time on personal
email: In the UK 9.9 percent of respondents use Facebook, while a total
of 39.9 percent use Hotmail and Yahoo. These figures are 4.8 percent
and 49.4 percent respectively in Belgium and 2.7 percent and 40.1
percent in The Netherlands.
Men vs. women In the UK, 17 percent of male IT professionals spent more
than one hour on non-work related tasks, compared to only 10 percent of
females. (Figures not available for Belgium or The Netherlands).
Teresa Sperti, marketing manager at The IT Job Board, comments: "We
make a point of regularly surveying our candidate database about issues
currently affecting both the IT arena as well as the workplace in
general. However, this is the first time that we have compared results
across the various regions in which The IT Job Board operates. The
results highlight some interesting similarities as well as differences
between the activities and opinions of IT professionals in different
countries."
* The research was carried out in August 2008. It received 497
responses in the UK, 83 in Belgium and 147 in the Netherlands.
About www.theitjobboard.co.uk
www.theitjobboard.co.uk is part of The IT Job Board group of companies,
which was set up in April 2002 in recognition that recruitment in the
IT sector was increasingly dominated by the internet. It is now one of
the leading IT specific job boards in the UK and Europe.
Online technology enables sophisticated targeting - for example by
skill, region or experience - of www.theitjobboard.co.uk's database of
650,000 IT professionals. It also offers employers services such as
branded job postings, a featured employer zone, targeted email
campaigns and guidance on advertising copy. The IT Job Board's managed
campaign service filters responses to provide companies with a
shortlist of applicants most suitable for the advertised position.
www.theitjobboard.co.uk's clients include Accenture, Bloomberg, the
British Council, Cap Gemini, Cisco Systems, Dell, IBM, Imperial
College, LogicaCMG, Norwich Union, Notting Hill Housing Group, the
Peabody Trust, Roche, Sage, T-Mobile and the University of Manchester.
CONTACT: IT Job Board
WWW: http://www.theitjobboard.co.uk
Kate Alexander, IT Job Board PR
Tel: +44 (0)20 8543 8481
e-mail: kate@alexanderpr.co.uk
Katrina Walker, IT Job Board PR
T: +44 (0)20 8543 6582
e-mail: k.walker@publicite.co.uk
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