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37% of Netflix Subscribers Say They Binge-Watch While at Work (netflix.com)
On-demand video streaming service Netflix has found that more people than ever are watching video outside their homes. About 67% of people now watch movies and TV shows in public, according to an online survey it commissioned of 37,000 adults around the world. The survey also found that about 37% of Netflix's US subscribers binge-watch shows and movies while at work.
Sounds like a whole lot of IT departments need to mind their own business. They are not there to police other employees but to ensure service stability.
This is a management issue or employee issue, not an IT issue.
Ironically I tried to follow the link in the TFA, and guess what .. it's blocked from here
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Found the guy that watches Netflix at work.
There's a difference between watching at work and watching while working. In my department (engineering) there's a lot of people who watch netflix at work I'd say there are about 36-40 people in our office space and I'd say a good 15 of them I see watching netflix maybe 10-12 of them binge. But only 2-3 do it while working. Most people here work and then when they're off the clock or on their lunch break they binge a few episodes of Friends or oddly enough lately Full House. I swear to you 1st gen people have the oddest tastes in American television. The third genners are typically watching random netflix anime or the hyper shows but the first gen guys and girls it's Friends and Full House. I'd have thought The office would be showing up all the time but not since last year for whatever reason.
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>37% of Netflix's US subscribers binge-watch shows and movies while at work.
Yep. It happens here all the time - we have a big pipe, and it's paid for even if we max it out. There are people who watch on breaks, on lunch, or if they're in a position that requires them to be physically present waiting for an issue to occur but doesn't offer much opportunity to do other work while waiting (we only have a couple of those positions, so far as I'm aware).
The company only cares if it affects business so if business apps are affected, IT throttles or blocks as necessary. If users are watching videos when they're supposed to be working, eventually there's a complaint and it's handled by HR (hasn't happened yet, to the best of my knowledge).
IT Departments are too busy wasting time on /. to worry about how is watching Netflix.
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37% of Netflix subscribers abruptly cancelled their accounts citing sudden lack of employment.
I can't watch stuff and do real work, but some years ago I had a crappy job that required no brain power, and I binged (using a USB drive and portable VLC) all sorts of shows and movies. I was a top performer consistently in my department and basically had to spend a lot of time NOT working to keep them from upping the workload on everyone else, who somehow couldn't keep up with their heads down all day.
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Sounds like a whole lot of IT departments need to mind their own business. They are not there to police other employees but to ensure service stability.
This is a management issue or employee issue, not an IT issue.
When the IT department is tasked with such responsibilities, as it's recognized that only the IT department has the technical capability to do the job properly, it can take two approaches. One approach is to filter, the other approach is to log and report. Given that companies are increasingly turning to fully centralized systems that allow one to drill-down from the Internet connection and DNS to the records of the user logged-in to a computer and the process they're running that has initiated that Internet connection. The company can set internal policies as to what behavior is and isn't acceptable, and then can enforce against employees that violate those policies. A defense by an employee claiming that they weren't stopped from said behavior would probably ring-hollow, if the employee acknowledged that the rules say they're not to use the Internet connection for such purposes then they effectively have no defense to being fired for it.
So which looks better, a simple egress filter that blocks access to something that the employee shouldn't do while at work, or logging and then punishing for violating the rules?
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I am an Uber driver so I binge watch while I drive people around.
Sounds like a whole lot of IT departments need to set up some egress filtering...
It's not a question of egress filtering. I'll bet most of the binge watching is being done on smartphones and tablets using cellular data.
> What kind of jobs have these people got where you can watch TV series while working?
The easiest job in the world:
Donald Trump's Fact Checker.
I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.
"Your assuming that watching or listening to Netflix in the background is a problem in the first place."
You're supposed to be working, period. If you're WATCHING something other than your job and you are not on your legally-required break periods, you aren't doing your fucking job.
"You have a very limited view of what IT does, I hope you don't work in it."
Meanwhile, you aren't competent enough to work IT period with your current mindset.
Um, no... Some people have a job which requires doing very little a lot of the time with periods of activity. For example, Fire Fighters aren't actively working 100% of the time that they are on the job.
Yes, I'm sure that a percentage of the binge watchers are simply slacking but you can't paint them all with the same brush unless you know what the actual job is.
Nope. I don't care if you're watching Netflix, listening to Pandora, or whatever as long as you aren't annoying the people around you and are getting your work done.
Sounds like a whole lot of IT departments need to set up some egress filtering...
The amount of time I spent finding ways around (usually successfully) IT firewalls greatly exceeds the amount of time I spend dicking around in more liberated companies. Granted, I'm (as I write this) off task, but less off task.
Still, watching Netflix at work is a bridge too far. Once you open that particular pandora's box, it gets very hard to contain.