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Employees all over the UK do not mind using their office laptop for personal use. This fact was brought to light by a survey conducted by Opinion Matters on behalf of telecom giant Vodafone. The survey revealed that the employees were gladly using office laptops for personal purposes and considered them a part of the perks one gets at work.

More than half of the British employees reported to having used office laptops for personal entertainment and utility. Once they are logged from the office server, the laptops are connected to a mobile broadband provider of the employee’s choice.

Mike Banwell from Vodafone UK stresses on the need for bosses to be open and flexible about such occurrences. He feels that the unfriendly attitude and strict rules at office would only lead to more contravention from the employees. In this regard, it was encouraging to see that 65% of the bosses did not object to the practice of personal use of company laptop. However, what the rest 35% thought about it and whether they considered it serious enough to be a ground for termination of job is not known. The situation is best avoided by investing in your own laptop, click here for info on the best broadband.

It was also pointed out that companies have to be more careful about their security software to prevent the loss or damage of business data during personal use.