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...Management Association and the ePolicy Institute found 76% of employers watch you surf the Web and 36% track content, keystrokes and time spent at the keyboard. If that isn't creepy enough, 38% hire staff to sift through your e-mail. And they act on that knowledge. A June survey by Forrester Research and Proofpoint found that 32% of employers fired workers over the previous 12 months for violating e-mail policies by sending content that posed legal, financial, regulatory or p.r. risks...
...really blame companies for watching our Web habits, since 45% of us admit that surfing is our favorite time waster, according to a joint survey by Salary.com and AOL. A Northeast technology company found that several employees who frequently complained of overwork spent all day on MySpace.com Information-technology departments routinely receive automatic Web reports on what sites employees visit; they tend to review them only if there's a red flag...
...next, so their goal is simply to beat a benchmark index (say, the S&P 500 or the Russell 1000) by a few percentage points a year. "We're about hitting lots of singles," says Ronald Kahn, who runs advanced equity strategies at Barclays Global Investors. The Casey, Quirk survey found that quants take about half as much risk as nonquants. Over time, that habit of not losing as much money in down years adds...
...According to a 2004 national survey of 2,900 American children conducted by the University of Michigan, the amount of time spent on homework is up 51% since...
...show "World Without End," this assiduous sleuth found her subject. Whether photographing the then-unknown Twiggy on a London street, or a ghostly skeleton in a Tasmanian museum 30 years later, Morley's instinct has been the same. Now in its final weeks at the AGNSW, Annear's survey show turns a celebrity shooter into a more curious gatherer of found objects...