We often hear this line: "My husband doesn't look at porn. Our computer is right in the open and I've never caught him in the act at all!" Think again!

This website, sponsored by the Lighted Candle Society gives you quick access to the latest research and statistics around pornography.

 

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Pornography at work



• 70% of all online porn access occurs during the 9-5 workday
  (Message labs monthly report march 2004)
  
• Internet Misuse at work is costing American corographyporations more than 85 billion annually in lost productivity.
  (Websense Internet Misuse Report 2003. )
• In 2001 91% (of companies) detected employee abuse of the internet access privileges, with 74% experiencing financial losses totaling 256 Billion. For example downloading Pornography and pirated software, this is up from only 79% detecting abuse in 2000.
  (Computer Security Institute and the Federal Bureau of Investigation )
  
• In 2000 United Kingdom Companies lost more than €10 billion due lost work productivity due to internet misuse.
  (Geoff Haggart, VP of European Websense 2004)
• The Sobig. F virus originated from a Pornographic Usenet group, estimates place the cost of lost productivity, wasted hours and lost sales to business caused by Sobig.F to $500 million to $1 billion.
  (Http://www.prweb.com/releases/2003/10/prweb83395.html)
• By the end of the year 2003 the US economy lost 10 Billion hours in productive workplace time. These hours amount to an estimated $250 billion in lost wage expences paid to employees who misuse the internet.
  (Ibid)
• In a survey of 110 companies varying in size from 50 to 1,500 employees by elron software, pornographic web sites were being accessed by 62% of companies.
  (Websence “Internet Usage in the Workplace 1999)
• The Websence “Internet Misuse Survey of July 2002” found that 69% of all business dismissals are associated with pornographic internet use at work.
  (Websence Internet Misuse Survey 2002)
• 22% of all males have admitted viewing pornography at work
  (Ibid)
• One in five men and one in eight woman admit to using their work computers as their primary lifeline to access sexually explicit material
  (MSNBC )
• During a Victoria’s secret online fashion show American companies lost more than $120 million in productivity in 44 minutes.
  (Websense)
• The viewing of online Pornography grew 1,800% from 14 million web pages in 1998 to 260 million in 2003.
  (Ibid)
• 37% of at work internet users in the US had visited a X-rated website from work
  (Comscore Networks Dec 2003)
• In the 2nd Quarter of 2005 43.92% of all Malware, Spam and Phishing Virus attacks were in the United States
  (Message Labs Intelligence P.1 April 2006)
• The January 2006 FBI computer crime survey states that nearly 9 of 10 US organizations experienced computer security incidents last year and that viruses (83.7%) and spyware (79.5%) headed the list of attacks costing an accounted loss of 12-13 million
  (Ibid P.2)
• Half of the Fortune 500 companies have dealt with at least one incident related to computer porn over a 12 month period, offenders were fired in 44% of the incidents and disciplined in a further 41% of cases
  (Computerworld Vol. 11, Issue 17, 14 July 2005)
• 61 million unique U.S. visitors logged into pornographic web sites in March of 2006, every fifth visitor was from a office work station
  (Comscore Media Matrix internet tracking firm, SavannahNow.com article “Pornography in the workplace” 4/23/2006)
• Nearly one third of US Fortune 500 companies have had sexual harassment cases filed against them by employees objecting to their colleague’s internet viewing habits.
  (TimesOnline.co.uk article “Avoid the web of Deceit, Porn and Litigation” Sept 5 2005)
• A national survey of U.S. 826 employees who have internet access found that 24% said that they had used a company computer for “romantic/sexual” purposes. 12% they had accessed sexual content from a workplace computer. 12% had forwarded sexual content to other employees’ while at work. 6% had engaged sexual instant message sessions while at work. 10% had used an office computer for online dating.
  (Employment Law Alliance “America at Work: Sex in the Workplace” survey Feb/10/2004)
• “The New Jersey court of Appeals held on the eve of 2006 that employers have a duty to uncover and stop and employees use of corporate electronic resources for child porn activities one the employer knows, or should know, that an employee has accessed adult pornography. Doe V. XYC Corp (N.J. Super. Ct. Dec 27 2005) provides a whole new basis of employment litigation that seeks to hold employers responsible for the damages to victims of crimes committed by employees using corporate electronic resources”
  (Law offices of Littler Mendelson time sensitive news letter Feb 2006)
• Security professionals estimate that half of all spyware on corporate computer systems comes from employees going to Pornographic websites and gambling sites from office computers
  (link)
• Although 99% of companies use Antivirus Software, 82% of them were hit by viruses and worms
  (Federal Bureau of Investigation 2003)
• More than 75% of office workers have accidentally accessed pornography while at work, 15% of these that been victimized more than 10 times.
  (Salt Lake Tribune 6/24/2004)
• In 2003 employees at the UK Dept of Work and Pensions downloaded some two million pages of pornographic content. Of these two million some eighteen hundred contained child pornography
  (Friday in Focus UK article “Workplace Porn, Alive and Well”)
• A study conducted of 350 companies in the US, UK and Australia found that 28% of employees surveyed affirmed downloading sexually explicit content while at work
  (MSNBC.com Sept 6. 2004)