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Workers spend 25 percent of their time online engaged in personal activities.

Network security firm Voco also found that 80 percent of all e-mails sent from work computers are of a personal nature, and online shopping sites, social networks and instant messaging/chat services are among the most popular destinations for workers killing time.

According to Voco, the most damaging online habit of slacking employees is downloading music and movies from peer-to-peer sites, because such activities stretch company bandwidth, open up networks to spyware and can even expose employers to legal liability.

It's estimated that non-work-related Web surfing costs American companies $200 billon a year in lost productivity. There were also some other figures being thrown around, but we were too busy checking out movie trailers to find the time to report them here.

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