<P> Cyberslacking can become a drain on corporate resources; the average UK employee spent 57 minutes a day surfing the Web while at work, according to a 2003 study by Peninsula Business Services . Internet addiction disorder is excessive computer use that interferes with daily life . Nicholas G. Carr believes that Internet use has other effects on individuals, for instance improving skills of scan - reading and interfering with the deep thinking that leads to true creativity . </P> <P> Electronic business (e-business) encompasses business processes spanning the entire value chain: purchasing, supply chain management, marketing, sales, customer service, and business relationship . E-commerce seeks to add revenue streams using the Internet to build and enhance relationships with clients and partners . According to International Data Corporation, the size of worldwide e-commerce, when global business - to - business and - consumer transactions are combined, equate to $16 trillion for 2013 . A report by Oxford Economics adds those two together to estimate the total size of the digital economy at $20.4 trillion, equivalent to roughly 13.8% of global sales . </P> <P> While much has been written of the economic advantages of Internet - enabled commerce, there is also evidence that some aspects of the Internet such as maps and location - aware services may serve to reinforce economic inequality and the digital divide . Electronic commerce may be responsible for consolidation and the decline of mom - and - pop, brick and mortar businesses resulting in increases in income inequality . </P> <P> Author Andrew Keen, a long - time critic of the social transformations caused by the Internet, has recently focused on the economic effects of consolidation from Internet businesses . Keen cites a 2013 Institute for Local Self - Reliance report saying brick - and - mortar retailers employ 47 people for every $10 million in sales while Amazon employs only 14 . Similarly, the 700 - employee room rental start - up Airbnb was valued at $10 billion in 2014, about half as much as Hilton Hotels, which employs 152,000 people . And car - sharing Internet startup Uber employs 1,000 full - time employees and is valued at $18.2 billion, about the same valuation as Avis and Hertz combined, which together employ almost 60,000 people . </P>

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