Negative Effects of Workplace Net Monitoring

Masem writes "Business2.com reports that while many corporations have monitoring tools and restrictions on Internet usages for non-work related activities, these can have negative effects on the productivity of the workplace. The report notes that people have to take days off from work to deal with personal business that could have been done in a few minutes or hours from a work net connection, and that employee morale is generally down when net controls are in place." A related study suggests employees spend more time doing work from home than playing at work.

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Salvador Dali Is My Cousin

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You compare the guy that wants to do banking to the guy who wants to look at boobies and say that the banker isn't doing anything wrong when the guy looking at porno is. I think you should realize that the problem with people using the "Internet" for personal use during work is that while they're doing that, they're not working. It doesn't matter if an employee is banking or looking at snatch - either way it's leading to employees not working. So a limited use seems fine. If some guy wants to spend his limited amount of time per day going over his finances, that should be fine. Likewise, if some guy wants to look at jiggly bigglies, as long as he keeps his pants on and is fairly discrete about it, that should be fine too. If you're going to allow personal use, fucking allow it! I don't think you understand what you're monitoring for at all. This is why you're the monitor guy and not the manager guy. Take a class in business and you might come around. Happy employees are good employees. So as long as they're still productive, let them use the Internet for whatever they want for a limited period of time, as long as those mothertruckers aren't breaking the law.