WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 (UPI) -- One in six men working in U.S. offices are believed to look at Internet porn on the job, and handheld devices are making it easier to do and harder to detect.
Richard Laermer, chief executive officer of the public relations firm, RLM, told USA Today that employers have a hard time blocking access to porn sites from handheld devices.
"Liability is the thing that keeps me up at night, because we are liable for things people do on your premises," he said. "It's serious. I'll see somebody doing it, and I'll peek over their shoulder, and they'll say, 'I don't know how that happened.' It's like 10-year-olds. And it's always on company time."
The number of companies using blocking software has gone up substantially, from 40 percent in 2001 to 65 percent in 2006.
A Harris survey last year found that 16 percent of men and 8 percent of women with workplace Internet access acknowledged having looked at pornographic sites. However, only 6 percent of the men and 5 percent of the women said that they had done it intentionally.
