BY JANE H. FURSE
DAILY NEWS WRITER
Monday, December 1st 2008
Americans aren't waiting until quitting time to get their X-rated kicks on the Internet.
Office workers view more porn sites at their office than at home - and are doing it 23% more than just a year ago, Newsweek reports in its upcoming issue.
"People are looking for an escape," says Steve Hirsch, CEO of Vivid Entertainment Group, an adult online video provider.
Many white-collar workers believe their bosses are too busy to notice their dirty Web surfing, Dawn Adams of the consulting firm HResults tells Newsweek.
"Managers are dealing with so many issues right now that sometimes people are able to hide out and no one knows what they're doing," she says.
Another possible factor may be that porn is no big deal for some Generation Y workers."You're looking at a younger consumer who has grown up with pornography being out there in the pop culture," said M.J. McMahon, publisher of AVN Online magazine, which tracks the adult video industry.
The increased volume of on-the-job smut surfing doesn't just mean lost productivity or an increase in sexual harassment lawsuits.
There's also an increase in computer viruses, adware and spyware that wind up in corporate networks. They can wreak havoc on companies and also expose wayward employees.
Adams said she fired an executive for spending hours a day on adult sites. The skin sites repeatedly crashed his computer.
"That's how we found out," Adams said.
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