Today, a huge number of white-collar workers use computes in their daily work. Most of these workers also have access to the Internet. Using the Internet for work purposes is becoming more and more common and, most of the time, is quite effective. Some organizations are finding, though, that a number of their workers do abuse the Internet. The abuse tends to occur in two forms. The first type of abuse they find is that a large number of employees visit sites that are not related in any way to their work. Some of the sites that workers visit contain material that is very offensive to others. The problem is more serious when offensive e-mails or material from Web sites are sent to other employees. In some cases, the courts have found that these materials create a hostile work environment. The second type of abuse is the waste of work time. Employees who spend excessive amounts of time surfing the Internet simply are not doing the work they are paid to do. A number of large companies are trying to deal with this problem by buying software that they use to track the sites that workers access from their computers. These companies warn all of their employees that visiting offensive sites at work can have major consequences and might even result in job loss.