Think of the absolute worst place of work you'd want someone looking at porn. A construction site? Nah. An emergency room? Nope. A confessional. Awkward... but guess again.
What about the office in the U.S. Department of Defense in charge of shooting down nuclear missiles? Bingo!
Last week the Missile Defense Agency issued a memo to staff members asking them to cool it on the porn during work hours. Bloomberg News got a hold of the letter on Wednesday, which read in part:
Specifically, there have been instances of employees and contractors accessing websites, or transmitting messages, containing pornographic or sexually explicit images...These actions are not only unprofessional, they reflect time taken away from designated duties, are in clear violation of federal and DoD and regulations, consume network resources and can compromise the security of the network though the introduction of malware or malicious code.
The agency's executive director, John James Jr., who penned the memo, should take solace in the fact that his employees aren't alone. According to Nielsen, 21 million Americans accessed X-rated websites from work computers in March 2010, spending, on average, an hour and 45 minutes perusing porn during the month. That's about 29 percent of the U.S. work force -- and doesn't even count folks who sneak a peek or two on mobile device on the job.
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