Broadband helped Brits to work from home during festive holidays

Brits were found to be becoming addicts to broadband and spending more time online than with their friends and famility during the Christmas holidays.

More than half of the people (57%) went online to send emails to their family and friends while more than two-thirds (40%) accessed social networking sites during the festive season, according the study from TalkTalk ISP. 11% of the users contacted their friends using broadband call service like Skype.

Broadband also helped many employees to work from homes, the research reveals. Over 34% of the people surveyed said they worked online during Christmas and New Year holidays. Brits spent an average three hours and 18 minutes to attend their work tasks during this season, while some were connected to internet for over ten hours to deal with the matters of work. .

Broadband continued to be used as an entertainment or pastime feature among the home users. Many internet users (20%) watched online TV shows such as BT Vision, Sky Player and BBC iPlayer. Almost the same number of users (19%) played online games.

Twitter updating saw the least activity as only 3% used their Twitter accounts during the vacation.

Mark Schmid from TalkTalk said:

“As recently as 10 years ago most of our time over the festive period was spent with our nearest and dearest, or slumped in front of the telly. Now we’re spending big chunks of our Christmas time playing games online, watching TV over the internet or social networking. Now your Twitter followers know what you had in your stocking before you’ve even tucked in to your turkey!”