Six percent, however, said they spent more than two hours a day using the company machine for private, non-work-related business.

Admit it - you've used your computer at work to view non-work-related Web sites.

He also occasionally undertakes non-work-related tasks in order to help friends and family.

They include non-work-related tasks to enable groups to focus on the process skills rather than the task skills.

(Even better would be a mode that registered simply non-work-related or work-related sites, without describing them more luridly.)

"To me that was unexpected so soon, that it would catch on so quickly for non-work-related uses," Mr. Ugolik said.

This includes surfing the web and doing non-work-related tasks on the internet such as chatting on social-networking sites, online shopping and other activities.

U.S. employers have been cracking down on employees using company equipment and company time for non-work-related purposes, including Cyber Monday.

The most important trick is to hide any chat windows or Web browser windows that contain non-work-related activities at the first hint that your boss is approaching.

However, if the law were to go into effect, the "non-work-related" provision means that teachers could still carry out private conversations, so long as it was through a channel approved by the school.

The school district had no problem with its employees sending non-work-related messages over its e- mail system, including jokes, secular messages of encouragement, event invitations, and chain messages.

An intrinsic consequence of downshifting is increased time for non-work-related activities which, combined with the diverse demographics of downshifters, cultivates higher levels of civic engagement and social interaction.

It's important to note that the department imposed no similar restrictions for non-religious activities or expressions, and it repeatedly permitted other employees to hold non-work-related meetings and events at its offices.

We will assign a high priority to a non-work-related hobby only if we have committed to it in some public manner, as we do when we join a volleyball team or a choir.

As well, he added, many corporations prefer BlackBerry because its software offers a high level of security and its devices cannot be used by employees for non-work-related tasks like listening to downloaded music.

Knowledge and discussion of very personal and non-work-related affairs among the pilots and with the flight crew that fostered an atmosphere lacking in the necessary focus and concentration for operational tasks.

His only non-work-related vacation was a two-week trip to Morocco in July 1969 with friends Colette Mimram, Stella Benabou (the then-wife of producer Alan Douglas), and Deering Howe.

The law states that teachers would not be allowed to use non-work-related sites to contact current or former students under the age of 18 via private means, such as messages on Facebook or direct messages on Twitter.

"When the County allows other employees to hold birthday parties, baby showers, card games, and other non-work-related meetings to take place in the workplace," said PJI in a press release, "it must allow employees wishing to pray together a place to meet as well.

It was Hatch who proposed to Garfield the specific solution that would lead to the creation of Kaiser Permanente: Industrial Indemnity would prepay 17.5% of premiums, or $1.50 per worker per month, to cover work-related injuries, while the workers would each contribute five cents per day to cover non-work-related injuries.