To evaluate how these blogs were playing out in the workplace, Ghose and his colleagues followed the posting and readingbehavior over a 15-month period of 2, 396 employees at a large information technology and consulting firm.
And users from those three countries were also the most likely to engage in other risky behavior on work PCs, including reading personal e-mail, downloading music and video and even peer-to-peer file-sharing, a practice that often spreads malicious software or inadvertently gives outsiders access to sensitive documents.