Comments on: The Impact of Corporate Policies on Web Working Employees

By: Nicollepetersen

Nicollepetersen — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:43:30 +0000

Whether an application is blocked or not, self-control comes from within

Ive been using http://bit.ly/bJwmma .
It uses a better procedure than blocking social media sites because it only monitors sites like Twitter during

production hours. People/Employees still have the option to use it for a breather or during breaks .
Sometimes they use it for work too in helping reach decisions. For me its really unnecessary to block Twitter.

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By: derek

derek — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 21:25:50 +0000

I am actually the one who enforces these policies where I work and you should be a little more reluctant to start violating your corporate policies just to get work done faster. As others have said above, its not all about goofing off, sometimes there are other reasons to block access to online productivity tools. Where I work we have to worry about being compliant with various laws such as the HIPAA privacy rule. Being compliant with these laws are very important to protect patient privacy in the Healthcare industry and these rules/laws are usually the reason behind many of the corporate policies that [agreed] can be very annoying. I would just like to encourage you to be sympathetic to the reasons for the policies and discuss what your needs are with your compliance enforcing group to see if there are practical allowances that can be made. Where I work, we have always been fairly strict with our policies, but very accommodating when a need arises.

Just be careful when you go knowingly violating corporate policies many times those same policies include verbiage like “violation of this policy could result in disciplinary action up to and including termination.”

By: NatalieMac

NatalieMac — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:36:06 +0000

I worked for a company where our main mode of conversation between employees and working groups was via IM and chat rooms. It was quick and easy and less intrusive than a phone call. We had people spread out over the city at a dozen or so work sites – some of our employees worked at client’s sites.

We ran into a huge issue when one client had blocked anything that remotely seemed like social networking on their network. We couldn’t find an IM client that would work for the employees at that site, and the client refused to allow access to even one IM client for our own employees at their site out of some irrational fear that their own employees would suddenly become unproductive. It was foolish and misguided and was nothing but a tremendous hurdle for the employees at that site who were essentially cut off from their coworkers for the entire work day.

By: pm

pm — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:30:31 +0000

@David

I agree,being too strict is not realistic nor will it yield an increase in productivity. Deal with the individuals abusing it and allow the people that can balance work and breaks the privledge.

By: clickme

clickme — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:41:37 +0000

it’s just that they want to remove disturbances.. its true that these “disturbances” produce many posts on web that are latter useful for work

By: David Wilcox

David Wilcox — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:17:16 +0000

@Adam
Exactly. If an employee produces the desired results, and that’s what they are paid for, who cares about how their time was spent?