Companies across Britain are losing millions of pounds every day because of this practice.

Employees can waste their employer’s time by spending hours every day surfing the web at work, or carrying out private e-mail correspondence.

Employers should lay down clear policies to deal with the problem as part of the contract of employment.

A London company are currently developing a system to monitor online access backed up by a million and half entries in their database to show employers where their employers are surfing.

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