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On the mind

By Times Wires
Published January 18, 2008

Biz tidbits from surveys

Half of Web usersvisit video sites

Nearly half of Americans who use the Internet have used a video-sharing site such as YouTube, and daily traffic to watch or post video doubled last year, found the Pew Internet and American Life Project. The phone survey of 2,054 adults, including 1,359 Internet users who were asked about video sharing, was conducted Oct. 24 to Dec. 2. Most of the questions had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. The survey included random calls made to cell phones to reach youths and tech-heavy adults who do not have traditional phones:

- 48 percent of Internet users have visited such a video-sharing site at least once to watch or post video, a growth from 33 percent in December 2006.

- On a typical day, 15 percent of users watch or post a video, up from 8 percent a year ago.

- Men are more likely than women to have used a video-sharing site - 53 percent compared with 43 percent.

- 70 percent of adults younger than 30 have done so, compared with 16 percent of those 65 and older.

- About a quarter of Americans have recorded video - roughly the same as in early 2006 - but about three times as many of those users are posting video, 14 percent compared with 4 percent in 2006.

Recruitment site finds unhappy workers

Americans have a reputation for workaholism. But they're not necessarily enjoying it, according to a new survey. The survey, a random online poll of 522 people who visited MRINetwork's Web site, was conducted by the recruitment company over two weeks this fall:

- Almost two-thirds of those polled said they often worked after their official day was done.

- Only 14 percent said they never or infrequently worked after hours.

- 70 percent of respondents did not feel they had a proper balance of work life and personal life, and blamed their companies for the problem.

Other people have lousy co-workers, too

How to cope? In most cases, it's best to resist the urge to fight back. Make sure your own job gets done, and minimize how much you have to depend on Mr. or Ms. Unpleasant. And don't waste too much energy defending yourself; it's likely that everyone else knows who is the real problem:

- Nearly a third of us work with rude and unprofessional people, according to workers who responded to a survey by OfficeTeam.

- More than half of workers surveyed said their boorish co-workers upset subordinates, peers and superiors alike with their belittling, slacking and rumor-mongering ways.

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