A survey by global Internet content security provider Trend Micro shows that more workers around the globe are using social networking sites while in the office, even as more companies are restricting access to such websites. The survey took a look at the habits of 1,600 full-time workers at various firms in the US, UK, Germany and Japan and found that social networking at workplaces globally has “steadily risen” to 24 per cent in 2010 from 19 per cent in 2008. Trend Micro’s 2010 survey said employees are finding ways around security roadblocks to make social networking an integral part of office-life around the world. The largest increase in social networking over corporate Internet connections during the last two years was among employees in Germany, which saw a more than 10 per cent jump, and the UK, with a six per cent rise. Read more.

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Social networking in the workplace is on the rise