Over 29 percent would like to set their own hours, while 52 percent would like the ability to at least negotiate convenient hours. There is certainly a growing community of workers out there, connected via a loose, informal network. More than half of the survey respondents rely on books, articles, or the Internet for the same information. Similarly, e-mail hasn't substantially impacted the amount of time that survey respondents spend at the office. Only12 percent have seen their workload decrease.
More individuals actually use e-mail for personal purposes than for business purposes.
Almost 79 percent send or receive personal e-mails at least once a day, while only 53 percent do so for business purposes on a daily basis. Finally, many of these respondents expect to change jobs in the next year. This is clearly a new mindset, because 68 percent of all survey respondents did not change jobs within the year prior. There can be little doubt that this survey adequately captured a cross-section of American jobseekers. The data doesn't seem to be slanted toward harried working parents, either.