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Nearly a quarter of all corporate e-mail is personal in nature, and 62 percent of workers send business e-mail from personal accounts, according to a new survey.

Seventy-two percent of workers sometimes use their work e-mail accounts to forward jokes, photos, video clips, and other nonwork related messages to coworkers, and another 12 percent of workers said they share music files through corporate e-mail, potentially "violating copyright laws, occupying server storage and eating large amounts of bandwidth," according to survey authors Mirapoint Inc., an e-mail security vendor, and The Radicati Group Inc., an IT research firm. The Radicati Group talked to 363 corporate e-mail users in a September online survey.

Coupled with an April survey finding that 33 percent of corporate e-mail is unsolicited spam, the new survey shows that more than half of all corporate e-mail is not work related, the companies said in a Monday press release.
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