Study about usage of Instant Messaging in businesses

Instant messaging is still used more often for personal reasons in the workplace than for business purposes, a new survey shows. Fifty-seven percent of the people surveyed at 300 companies worldwide use IM at work for personal chitchat more often than for job-related communications, according to a report issued Thursday by Meta Group.

However, many companies have also adopted a more stringent attitude toward managing IM use than they have applied to e-mail and phone calls.

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