Excessive Indulgences: Personal Use of the Internet at the Department of the Interior (PDF; 645 KB)
Source: U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of Inspector General

Our review of 1 week of computer use logs revealed over 4,732 log entries relating to sexually explicit and gambling websites that had been accessed by Department computers. We estimated that this activity accounted for over 24 hours of Internet use during our sample period; however, our analysis did not include a review of email or other means of transferring prohibited material.
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More alarming was our finding regarding access to on-line game and auction websites: we discovered over 1,000,000 log entries where 7,763 Department computer users spent over 2,004 hours accessing game and
auction sites during that same week. Over a period of 1 year, these veritable shopping and gaming binges could account for 104,221 hours of lost productivity.

One full-time employee normally works 2,080 hours per year. Our findings suggest that the equivalent of 50 FTEs spend all their work hours surfing Internet on-line game and auction websites over the course of a year.

Editor’s note: Full-color cover of this report is a DocuTicker “don’t miss”!

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