Surfing Is From Mars, Support Calls Are From VenusSurfing Is From Mars, Support Calls Are From Venus

A survey conducted for the Web security company Websense by Harris Interactive says that men surf more non-work-related Web sites than women while at work and spend longer looking at them, and women are far more likely to admit that their PCs are infected with spyware and call the Help Desk about it.

David DeJean, Contributor

May 17, 2006

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A survey conducted for the Web security company Websense by Harris Interactive says that men surf more non-work-related Web sites than women while at work and spend longer looking at them, and women are far more likely to admit that their PCs are infected with spyware and call the Help Desk about it.You can read the Websense press release here. It is, the company says, the seventh annual Web@Work Employee survey. The release goes on at even more stupefying length than most press releases, but you already know the bottom line: men won't stop and ask for help, even when all they're driving is a browser.

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