If you're reading this article online at work, you may be alone.

Take a look around the office. Chances are that today your co-workers are busy at their computers -- shopping.

Shop.org, the association for online retailers, commissioned a survey that found that 54.5 percent of all office workers with Internet access plan to do some holiday shopping online from work. That translates to 68.5 million people who are browsing for bargains.

The day has been dubbed Cyber Monday. It's the day people who eschew the malls, and those who don't, hit the keyboard to shop for Christmas.

Those who are shopping for Hanukkah had better pay for express shipping -- the holiday is early this year. With the first night on Dec. 4, that gives the postman only eight days to get presents to your door.

Another study about Cyber Monday, commissioned by BJ's Wholesale Club, found that even though 11 percent of those shopping Internet sites at work had been caught doing so, they still plan to spend a good hour or so at work today looking for bargains such as bed sheets, instead of looking at work such as spreadsheets.

Like the brick and mortar stores that catered to those shoppers willing to walk through their doors on Black Friday, today the Internet retailers are offering all sorts of special promotions, such as sale prices and free shipping, to get people to their sites.

At Shop.org, which is running CyberMonday.com for retailers, JCPenney.com is offering $10 off of purchases of $50 or more and HSN.com is offering 15 percent off for all new customers.

The Shop.org survey found that men, at 57.3 percent, are more likely to shop from the office than women, of whom 51.7 percent shop from work. It should be no surprise that the Facebook set, workers between the ages of 18 and 24, are most likely to shop on the Internet from work at 72.9 percent.

Shop.org also found a geographical preference, with people in the Western states more likely to shop from the office than other workers, coming in at 56.4 percent.

The Shop.org survey was conducted by BIGresearch from Oct. 31 to Nov. 7 and contained a random sample of 7,982 respondents. BJ's poll, like the store, was cut rate and was conducted by Decisions Analyst Inc. which questioned 500 people who were all members of American Consumer Opinion online.