Social Networking Sites at Work..

we had a ban on the usual (pron/downloads) then they went further and banned lotto - had to reverse that as several board members complained lol. Personally although its good to have in my lunchbreak if its not there I dont miss it...not enough hours in the day mostly!

i am an internet investigations analyst... unrestricted access...

Originally Posted by Viney

For every disciplined employess, there are 3 or 4 non disciplined ones, hence the ban!

yep, thats what we have experienced, leave it based on trust and you get all sorts of sites accessed

we took over 4 sites recently and since their old system was based on trust, for now we will leave them like that but within a couple of days there was some "interesting" URL's showing up on the log files.

Even though they now have to input their user name and password to get to the above said sites..........jeeze, how complacent or thick can some folk be

Originally Posted by Holdup

Get a mobile with free internet browsing

Have done, just have no signal... DOH!

it was the MD who instigated it, Cant really tell him to stick it.

Internet usage is monitored at work. There have been people sacked because of excessive usage. There has even been one sacked for the sites he tried to access even though those sites were blocked.

[Bibio]

you are paid to work not surf the internet.

do what you want on your lunch hour, just dont use company 'bandwidth'. your company pays a lot of money to have a certain bandwidth, if employees use up this bandwidth by being on the internet then the company has none left to run its business.

I work for BT so that rule doesn't really apply.

Work blocked fb after serious abuse of time on it, its available between 12-2 only now and is still using more traffic than anything else...

Gradually more and more sites going lunchtime only as and when its picked up on, we've also had people sacked for trying to bypass

All social networking sites are blocked at work and I can use the org from work.

Originally Posted by lynw

Work have a strict policy on how I can use Facebook full stop let alone limit its use to a dirty LAN and no access whatsoever on the main network. Ive always accepted there are some jobs within the civil service that put you in that position where work can dictate a number of things in your private life and have no major issue to it tbh.

But in part its why I have a generic account, no private info, no private info in any status comments or anything that goes on my or others wall, and generally why I really only use it sparingly these days. Its also why on any forum Im on theres never any info in my profile

It must be a tough life being a deep undercover secret agent, brokering deals with the CIA, Al Queda and the National Front for the Liberation of Garden Gnomes.

Are you also known as Dangerous Dave?