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57% of Office Workers are Now Compulsive E-Mail-Checkers

Obsessively tapping e-mail ‘F9 refresh’ button every few seconds, hoarding every e-mail

New York, NY (October 1, 2007) - New research from Intermedia, the world's largest provider of business e-mail services, reveals a number of ‘obsessive-compulsive’ habits that are now common among office workers. According to the survey results, 57 percent of people continuously tap the 'F9 refresh' button, to check for new e-mails. In addition, 45 percent of senior managers claim to file each message neatly, with only nine percent never filing any messages at all.

Lisa Coleman
Marketing Manager
646-519-8206
lcoleman@intermedia.net

The survey of more than 1,000 office workers at small and mid-sized businesses using Intermedia's hosted business e-mail service, reveals that:

• 60 percent of office workers and 50 percent of senior managers admit to regularly sending e-mails without the promised attachments, then resending moments later
• More than half of both senior managers and other employees save every message, no matter how irrelevant
• 15 percent of senior bosses have sent messages to the wrong "John" or "Mary" in their address book
• Six percent of all respondents admit abusing the 'High priority!' feature, to the dismay of co-workers

“Office workers are now totally dependent on e-mail and spend so much time in Microsoft Outlook, so it’s not surprising that unusual habits have developed,” said Rurik Bradbury, VP of Strategy for Intermedia.

“Luckily, outsourced e-mail – such as our hosted Microsoft Exchange 2007 service – can help to ease the consequences of some of these habits. For instance, our 2 GB mailbox size means employees no longer have to worry about deleting e-mails to manage disk space – and the improved search features in Outlook 2007 let you find important e-mails easily, without filing.”

For access to the complete survey results, please contact Michael Sacks at msacks@mww.com or (212) 827-3749

About Intermedia.NET

Intermedia.NET is the US leader in Exchange hosting and Web hosting for small and medium businesses. A Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, we are committed to best-in-class 24x7 service. With three locations around the world, Intermedia.NET offers its growing customer base an outstanding technical team, guaranteed service levels, and ease of management through its unmatched HostPilot® Control Panel. Founded in 1995 and hosting Microsoft Exchange since 2000, our extremely reliable service and support have earned Intermedia.NET a reputation as one of the premiere providers of Exchange and Web hosting solutions. For more information, visit www.intermedia.net.

For more information, please contact:

Lisa Coleman
Marketing Manager
Intermedia.NET
646 519 8206
lcoleman@intermedia.net