Conducted by Pew Research Centre opinion poll, which was attended by 535 employees of American adults will help understand what kinds of network activity characteristic of US business people. With some reservations, the resulting picture can be projected to other countries with well-developed infrastructure.
Let's start with the fact that the email was among the favorites for those who in their work activities in any way associated with online services. This method of information transmission rating scored 61%, whereas the "Internet" generally satisfied 54%. Landline telephone was the third most important means of business communication (35%). Finally, the social network for work were the most useless (4%). More 46% of organizations there a set of rules forbidding employees to do certain statements through social networks. Only 23% of organizations encourage activities of employees aimed at promoting the company in the online environment.
In general, the statistics says that 94% of respondents working Americans are Internet users, with this characteristic for different industries. It is interesting that 46% of respondents say that having access to the Internet in the workplace does not affect their productivity, others say 46% of the growth in labor productivity, and only 7% believe that access to a global network has made their work less effective.
Approximately half of the survey participants access to email, the web and mobile phone allowed to expand social circle outside the organization, 35% claim to increase the flexibility of working time, and 35% even reported an increase in working hours.