IT security employees spend six hours of working week on hobbies: Kaspersky
IT security employees spend six hours of working week on hobbies: Kaspersky: As much as 85% of IT Security staff engage in leisure activities during working hours. Typically, these hobbies account for six hours [1] a week, which is an hour more than staff across the company overall. A reason for these breaks may be to find a distraction from high workloads, which was also cited as the most common reason to leave a cybersecurity job. These are findings extracted from a new Kaspersky report titled ‘ Managing your IT security team’ . Cybersecurity can involve routine and repetitive tasks, which affects both productivity and motivation to work. A shift to remote work has further blurred the lines between working and personal time. This combination of factors can lead to situations where employees are often distracted from work. Kaspersky’s report surveyed more than 5,200 IT and cybersecurity practitioners globally. According to the research, among the most common activities IT secu