A little lesson for corporate culture:

The National Technology Readiness Survey, conducted by the University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business, along with marketing company Rockbridge Associates, surveyed 501 people in December 2002. The survey found that people with Web access at home and at work spend an average of 3.7 hours per week surfing sites for personal use at work. But they spend more time, 5.9 hours per week, logging on from home so they can work.

“The survey suggests companies should accept some personal use of the Internet at work as not only inevitable, but as positive to the organization,” Roland Rust, director of the business school’s Center for e-Service, said in a statement. “Totally segregating work from personal activities might result in a net decline in work performed, not to mention lower workplace morale.”