May 12, 2008

No more surfing in company time

Companies are increasing getting annoyed at employees who spend their working time on the internet. This follows a case in Japan where a civil servant had been surfing the net for porn. It turns out the poor guy had logged up over 780,000 hits on various porn related websites in just nine months.

In a case like this, it is understandable looking at porn while a work cannot be a good thing, but companies are looking at this further, they want to stop all personal internet activity by their employees and in particular the social networking sites.

Companies are fed up with Facebook and MySpace where it has been estimated employees spend on average between thirty minutes and three hours on these sites in company time! This has prompted the introduction of employee surveillance and rules that apply to using the internet in work time.

Source [MSN BC]