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Discipline for Inappropriate Technology Use
• Sample comprised of 279 randomly selected
HR professionals.
• Analyzing 279 responses of 1969 emails
sent, 1916 received (response rate = 14%)
• Survey fielded January 4 – 10, 2005.
Presentation generated on January 11, 2005.
• Margin of error is +/- 6%.
SHRM Weekly Online Survey: January 4, 2005
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1. Within the past 12 months, has your organization disciplined and/or fired
employees for any of the following actions? (Check all that apply)
100%
94%
90%
85%
83%
76%
80%
70%
60%
54%
50%
40%
30%
30%
20%
20%
10%
11%
3%
0%
18%
11%
4%
5%
1%
0%
Blogging (Web
Downloading
Non work
logs - personal music/videos
related Instant
journals)
from the Internet
messaging
Yes, disciplined
Non work
Sending
related Internet personal emails
use
Yes, fired
No
SHRM Weekly Online Survey: January 4, 2005
© 2005 SHRM
1. Within the past 12 months, has your organization disciplined and/or fired
employees for any of the following actions? (Check all that apply)
Topic
Yes, disciplined
Yes, fired
No
Blogging (Web logs - personal journals
available on the Web)
3%
0%
94%
Downloading music/videos from the
Internet
11%
4%
83%
Non work related Instant messaging
11%
1%
85%
Non work related Internet use
30%
20%
54%
Sending personal emails
18%
5%
76%
SHRM Weekly Online Survey: January 4, 2005
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2. How does your organization use the Internet to gather information on
potential job candidates before hiring? (Check all that apply)
Not applicable - we do not use the Internet to
gather information on job candidates
41%
We perform Internet assisted background
checks on job candidates
25%
Not applicable - we outsource this function
22%
We perform general Internet searches on job
candidates
We read job candidates’ blogs or Web logs
(personal journals available on the Web)
Other
21%
3%
5%
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45%
SHRM Weekly Online Survey: January 4, 2005
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2. How does your organization use the Internet to gather information on
potential job candidates before hiring? (Check all that apply)
Choice
Count
Percent of Sample
Not applicable - we do not use the Internet to
gather information on job candidates
113
40.5%
We perform Internet assisted background checks
on job candidates
69
24.7%
Not applicable - we outsource this function
61
21.9%
We perform general Internet searches on job
candidates
59
21.1%
We read job candidates’ blogs or Web logs
(personal journals available on the Web)
7
2.5%
Other
15
5.4%
SHRM Weekly Online Survey: January 4, 2005
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3. How does the outsourcing organization use the Internet to gather
information on potential job candidates before hiring? (Check all that apply)
Don’t know
67%
They perform Internet assisted background checks
on job candidates
22%
Not applicable - they do not use the Internet to
gather information on job candidates
7%
They read job candidates’ blogs or Web logs
(personal journals available on the Web)
2%
They perform general Internet searches on job
candidates
2%
Other 0%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
SHRM Weekly Online Survey: January 4, 2005
© 2005 SHRM
3. How does the outsourcing organization use the Internet to gather
information on potential job candidates before hiring? (Check all that apply)
Choice
Count
Percent of Sample
Don’t know
40
67%
They perform Internet assisted
background checks on job
candidates
13
22%
Not applicable - they do not use
the Internet to gather information
on job candidates
4
7%
They read job candidates’ blogs
or Web logs (personal journals
available on the Web)
1
2%
They perform general Internet
searches on job candidates
1
2%
Other
0
0%
SHRM Weekly Online Survey: January 4, 2005
© 2005 SHRM