No More Unrestricted Internet At Work

Schlemphfer writes: "You can forget about using private email or surfing the web while at work if these bozos have their way. And judging by the Reuters article, it looks like they might. Basically what they're doing is trying to scare senior management into thinking that allowing employees unrestricted use of the net will cripple a company with viruses and lawsuits."

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You'll always have access

[wirefarm]

If you are root...
Here at my company, as a sysadmin, I've been suggesting a policy of completely unfiltered web access *and* completely unfiltered proxy log access.
From the CEO all the way down to the temps.
(Except for *me* of course...)

We already filter out dangerous attachments from email and have good virus software. We really don't have a problem in that respect.

The thing is, once you take something like this away from your staff, you are saying "We don't trust you. We think you're slacking."

In my office, people work damn hard and are pretty happy in their work. We have a good atmosphere and no real division between workers and management. Once a company starts doing this kind of thing, the mood changes and people get resentful.

How many people in how many companies have said "This place really started to go downhill when they took away the free soft drinks..."?

Just my 2 yen,
Jim in Tokyo