20% OF EMPLOYEES HAVE TAKEN OFFICE SUPPLIES …….

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http://www.sunherald.com/447/story/616212.html
Nearly 20 Percent of U.S. Workers Have Taken Office Supplies for Personal Use
Despite Most Feeling it is Wrong to Do So ,Companies Could Feel Impact on Operational Costs, Profits
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LAUDERDALE, Fla., June 08 Nearly one in five (19 percent) workers
report they have taken office supplies for personal use in the past
year, according to a recent Spherion(R) Workplace Snapshot survey. Of
those who admit to having stolen office supplies, only 22 percent felt
guilty or regretted the act, despite 74 percent of workers feeling it
is wrong to do so. The number of workers who have taken office supplies
for personal use remains unchanged from 2007, however the number of
workers who feel it was wrong to do so has increased from 69 percent
last year.

The primary reason workers give for having taken
office supplies for personal use is that they needed them (42 percent).
One-third say it was because their boss/office manager said it was OK,
and 18 percent say they took office supplies because the company will
never miss them. Although the most common types of supplies taken by
workers are pens, pencils or rulers (66 percent), paper, post-its or
file folders (57 percent), and calculators, staplers or tape dispensers
(11 percent), eight percent of workers admit to having taken higher
priced items such as laptops, PDAs or cell phones, an increase from
three percent last year.The survey also finds that male workers are
more likely to have taken office supplies than their female
counterparts, with 20 percent vs. 17 percent respectively. Male workers
are also less likely to feel it is wrong to do so (68 percent vs. 70
percent of female workers), and less likely to feel guilty or regret
the act (19 percent vs. 22 percent of female workers).

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June 18, 2008 at 11:09 AM