
CHAPTER
9
Content and Personal Use
Risks and Rules
When it comes to inappropriate content, offensive language, and exces-
sive personal use, employers have little tolerance. Of the 30 percent of
bosses who terminated employees for Internet misuse in 2007, 84 per-
cent cited the viewing, downloading, or uploading of pornography and
otherwise offensive or inappropriate material as the reason. That’s a
65 percent increase over the 19 percent of employers who dismissed
employees for the same reason in 2001, according to American Manage-
ment Association and ePolicy Institute research.
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Similarly, of the 28 percent of managers who fired workers for
e-mail violations ...