Survey looks at social networking in the workplace

A few interesting statistics tonight from a the 2009 Deloitte Ethics & Workplace Survey that I think have some bearing on the Bozeman privacy issue:

• 53 percent of the respondents said that their social networking pages are none of their bosses' business.
• 40 percent of business executive respondents said their employees' social networking pages were their business.
• 30 percent of business executive respondents admitted to informally monitoring their employees' social networking pages.
• 61 percent of employees surveyed said that even if their employers did monitor their social sites, it wouldn't change what they do online.

The Deloitte survey data comes from a survey of 2,008 employed adults conducted by phone April 9-19, 2009. The business executive data came from an online survey of 500 executives conducted April 10-17, 2009.

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