December 17, 2008 11:19 AM

Survey results: Shopaholics
Posted by Jesse Nunesat 11:19 AM

I'll admit, I'm jealous of all the people who can spend hours at work surfing for good gifts for their loved ones. If I had such a luxury, I wouldn't end up scrambling around the packed stores the day before Christmas, like I do every year. You'd think I'd have learned by now...

But I digress. In last week's poll, we asked how many of you do your holiday shopping online at work, and if so, how much of it. Here are the results:

From the look of it, it seems a majority of of our readers use at least some of their time at work shopping for the holidays. While a majority admit to doing only a small portion of their shopping at work, there are just as many people who do "most of it" than do "none of it."

I'll admit, this results showed more people shopping online at work than I thought. Sure, we all hear about "Cyber Monday" and how it became such a big shopping day because people could use their company's fast online connection to ferret out all the online deals, but I figured that with broadband Internet becoming mainstream in American households, there would be less of a need to rely on the speedy work connection to shop. Looks like I was wrong ... maybe people just got into the habit of shopping online at work, and it's become an annual routine.

Or maybe people are just bored with their jobs. Your guess is as good as mine.

For this week's survey we ask you to look back at 2008 and estimate the number of sick days you took. No, we don't want to know if they were "real" sick days or not, just how many days you took off that went in the "sick day" column on the timesheet. Click here to participate.