UK business slow to adopt IM use

Nearly three-quarters of UK companies block access to instant messaging (IM) services, according to an IT security firm. A recent survey of 1,000 enterprise IT directors, unveiled at Infosec Europe 2008, found that fear of data loss, time-wasting and other misuse outweighs the potential productivity benefits.

This sounds eerily like a survey in the US from 2002?

- ¾ of business block IM.
- Only 11 percent have an IM policy
- Even though FinServ industry is most likely to use IM, only 16% responded that they are monitoring?

Full report from survey here