May 8, 2006—Employers might want to lock up the supply cabinet before leaving the office if they want to find it stocked when they return.
Turns out the majority of office workers (58%) have taken office supplies for their personal use, according to a new survey conducted by Harris Interactive and commissioned by LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell’s lawyers.com, a comprehensive online resource for finding lawyers.
Among those who admit to taking office supplies for personal use, the most commonly stolen office supplies include pens/pencils (77%), followed by self- adhesive “sticky” notes (44%) and paper clips (40%). Some employees (2%) are even taking decorations like plants, paintings and office furniture (2%).
Harris Interactive fielded the online survey on behalf of Lawyers.com between March 31 and April 4, 2006 among a nationwide sample of 2,364 US adults 18 years of age or older. The data were weighted to be representative of the total US adult population on the basis of region, age within gender, education, household income, race/ethnicity and propensity to be online. In theory, with a probability sample of this size, one can say with 95 percent certainty that the results for the overall sample of adults have a sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
Martindale-Hubbell’s Lawyers.com from LexisNexis, is the leading lawyer directory on the Web, providing consumers and small businesses access to a free database of more than 440,000 attorneys and law firms nationwide.
Harris Interactive Inc. based in Rochester, New York, is the 13th largest and the fastest-growing market research firm in the world, most widely known for The Harris Poll and for its leadership in the online market research industry.
