世論 What Japan Thinks

Here’s an interesting (but a fuller version would be even more interesting) survey conducted by Marsh Inc and reported on by japan.internet.com into taking work computers home.

Demographics

Between the 4th and 9th of December 2008 300 members of the Marsh monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 50.0% of the sample were male, 20.0% in their twenties, 20.0% in their thirties, 20.0% in their forties, 20.0% in their fifties, and 20.0% aged sixty or older.

At my place of work we have a number of interesting rules regarding taking computers out of the office. I take mine home almost every day, and of course since it is forbidden I never ever use it to prepare my blog entries nor have I installed no end of tools to assist in creation of said entries, even though by deleting the uninstall entries from the registry they can be hidden from the licence checking software. Or so I’ve been told, I of course do not know if that is true or not.

Research results

From the original 300 people in the survey, 209 people were employed in the private or public sector. Of these 209 people, 9 did not use a computer at work. They were asked the following question.

Q1: What types of computer do you use at work? (Sample size=200, multiple answer)

	Votes	Percentage
Desktop PC	141	70.5%
Notebook PC (to SQs)	98	49.0%
Sub-notebook PC (to SQs)	5	2.5%
Tablet PC (to SQs)	2	1.0%
Don’t know	1	0.5%

Q1SQ1: About how often do you take the PC out of the office? (Sample size=102)

Every day	10.8%
Once every three days	5.9%
Once a week	9.8%
Once every two weeks	5.9%
Once a month	12.7%
Once every three months	5.9%
Once every six months	13.7%
Other	35.3%

Q1SQ2: What do you most often do with the PC when you take it out of the office? (Sample size=102)

Customer meetings (presentations, etc)	16.7%
Work at cafe, etc	2.9%
Take work home	22.5%
Check mail, etc at client	19.6%
Check mail, etc, on days off	2.9%
Other	35.3%