That must be a sign of a good economy. People are spending more time than last year shopping at work.

According to a new survey of 3,321 U.S. employees from CareerBuilder, half of workers plan to spend time shopping at work during the holiday season. That's 3 percent higher than last year's poll.

But 58 percent of the admitted shoppers say they'll spend less than an hour secretly shopping. That means that roughly a quarter of the total U.S. workforce will spend more than an hour shopping at the office in the coming weeks.

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