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Red Envelope : Worker productivity was a morning dip in the Northwest.
Tomorrow is Cyber Monday – a phrase that the retail sector created in 2005 for that bit of a hype than Black Friday’s online equivalent – and the region is tops in the united states when it comes to those who plan to their work computers for holiday shopping.
More than 56 percent of Northeast workers with an on-the-job Internet access plan to shop online for gifts this year, according to a National Retail Federation survey.
Nationally, the number of people who plan to shop during the work is expected to hit 68.8 million, down from 72.8 million last year, perhaps a sign of economic times and job losses and concerns.
But more retailers are on sale at Cyber Monday this year, with 87.7 percent saying they have a special promotion will offer, from 83.7 percent last year.
The NRF CyberMonday.com launched in 2006 to total retailers’ online deals. Start by Lexington-based Mall Networks Inc., will be promotions from more than 700 retailers including this year.
From midnight to 11:59, retailers including American Eagle Outfitters, The Body Shop RedEnvelope and will offer a “job handling the hour” on site, with free shipping, dollars or percentages off purchases, free gifts with purchases .
Public can get mobile alerts from the occupied hourly courtesy of soundbite Bedford Communications Inc. The company will send text messages to mobile phones buyers CYBERMONDAY text or choose to 77,053 in ten CyberMonday.com
For employers looking for the eradication of the shop workers at the boss’ dime, the NRF survey shows the likely culprits. More men than women intend to shop from work – 56.3 percent against 50.8 percent – with almost 74 percent of workers ages 18-24.
But Phil Rist, an executive Vice President of BIGResearch, which conducted the NRF survey, has an interesting spin for employers to consider.
“Workers who spend 10 minutes at the office of the completion of their holiday shopping online is probably not much more efficient than those used extended lunch breaks, waiting in line at the store and fighting holiday traffic on the way back to work,” he said in a statement.
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