Employees who use the Internet for purposes other than job tasks place a significant drain on network energy and decrease system responsiveness for job-related functions. This added load costs organizations additional fees to support servers, Internet service providers, and the hardware necessary to accommodate increased network traffic and data storage. An employee’s inappropriate use may negatively affect other employees’ speed of access or storage space available for work product. Or worse, system slowdowns can delay data retrieval and result in network malfunction or failure due to overload.