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Sitting around on YouTube and Facebook all day at work definitely cuts down on productivity and some countries have started banning those sites as a result.

The former Yugoslav republic of Montenegro has banned public sector staff from accessing the popular Internet websites Facebook and YouTube at work, the government said Wednesday. Employees at state-run institutions who attempt to log in to Facebook and YouTube, the social networking and video sharing sites, would be greeted by the message "access denied" during working hours.
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thought most companies did this
IF they use websense they are already blocked
 
Sounds like an attempt to keep wasted company/government time down to a minimum...makes sense to me.
 
If the employees don't stare at that crap all day, they'll smoke. If they don't smoke, they'll take a long coffee break. If they don't drink coffee, they'll use the bathroom. And if they don't use the bathroom, then I don't even wanna guess what they'll do or come up with to not do the work they're paid to do... ;)

Something will fill the bill, surely.
 
Well

most companies stateside do that already.

Forget time wasting, more inlines of keeping bandwidth hogging to a minimum.
 
Makes sense to me. Many companies does this, it reduces worker distractions.
 
I can understand them doing this, but we take the opposite track. As long as your not looking at child porn, we don't care how they spend their time. We leave that to the supervisor's. It's their job to manage their people and not necessarily IT's job. There are some controls like not being able to do limewire, torrent's etc. But, overall, staff could be looking at all those sites without interference from us.
 
Can't do it here, and thank god, it's the only way I can save any money on Mob Wars!
 
eeyrjmr said:
thought most companies did this
IF they use websense they are already blocked
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I work for a government entity and we use Websense. For most people the Social Networking category and any video streaming is blocked. People directly involved with outreach are allowed to use Facebook/MySpace etc as our agency has profiles online with those sites for purposes of information dissemination.
 
figgie said:
Forget time wasting, more inlines of keeping bandwidth hogging to a minimum.
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Risk categories addressed for us are:
-Productivity loss (obvious)
-Bandwith loss (we don't have a lot of bandwidth)
-Legal liability reduction (reduces potential exposure to sexual harrassment, adult sites are blocked)
-Security enhancement (all known malware/spyware sites are blocked, downloads of any kind are prohibited for end users)
 
I also work for a US agency and we have many sites that are blocked. It's not too bad now but initially they blocked all message boards. Obviously this didn't go over well and it did inhibit my ability to solve problems (IT) so they repealed that part. I think maybe some day YouTube will be unblocked- we actually have content posted there so it's funny that it can't be accessed from within the network.
 
I have only one thing to say. If it wasn't for you tube I wouldn't had solved my HDD recovery problems. Freaking commies.
 
I haven't ever been able to access YouTube from work (2 years here). Facebook just recently got blocked.
 
Joe Average said:
If the employees don't stare at that crap all day, they'll smoke. If they don't smoke, they'll take a long coffee break. If they don't drink coffee, they'll use the bathroom. And if they don't use the bathroom, then I don't even wanna guess what they'll do or come up with to not do the work they're paid to do... ;)

Something will fill the bill, surely.
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yeah i remember at my last job (i acutally like my current job) i'd go to the bathroom and play games on my mobile for 20mins pretending to have a shit.. i remember some comedy sketch to that effect and i was like!! THAT IS SO ME!!
 
brons2 said:
Access it on your own time, from home.
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my mind has new thoughts all the time. and if right there and then i need to look something up regarding some non-work-related issue, i'm gonna look it up there and then. and if my employer cant live with that, they can find someone else to fill my job... but im not really interesting in wasting time on pointless stuff like youtube and fakebook anyways.. well except for ranting on forums in the news sections :D
 
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