From a recent article in IT Week:

Staff using the Internet at work for personal matters could be costing UK industry £9.6 billion a year, according to Net traffic monitoring firm Websense.

The figure is based on 44 percent of workers spending an average of three hours a week surfing the Internet for non-work reasons.

Websense said that the figure does not include bandwidth, storage and human resources costs, but rather represents a proportion of employee salaries.

Websense added that many firms still do not have policies to govern the use of email and the Internet at work.

Masons suggested that personal use of the Internet should be permitted, but only when it does not interfere with the performance of duties and does not take priority over work responsibilities. They suggested that companies should be as open about monitoring as possible, and that when does monitoring takes place, it should be automated if possible.

-- Anonymous, August 24, 2001

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Since the merger with Exxon things are getting harder, we have "The Profilers" here for two weeks asking questions lyeuk, thing is they they all look like schoolkids, my email account has been down for 2 weeks, could be sorted locally but waiting for Houston, sign of the times eh!

-- Anonymous, August 24, 2001

Oh dear that's me then...........nufc.com is my home page at work!

-- Anonymous, August 24, 2001

Before the internet, there was the water cooler, going outside for smoke, the ladies/men's room, daydreaming, writing letters, doing personal bills/banking, etc. Meaning...if people are going to waste time, they'll find a way to waste time. As long as the work gets done, who really gives a flip? Companies should find more important things to worry about.

-- Anonymous, August 24, 2001

or cut down the work week to 30 hours so we have enough time in our personal lives to do what we need/want to do! :-)

-- Anonymous, August 24, 2001

Old Chinese Proverb from top of bingo ticket from Workingmens Club

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It is not the TIME put into the WORK, but the WORK put into the TIME

-- Anonymous, August 24, 2001

........ try telling your gaffer that, Buff! ;o{)

-- Anonymous, August 24, 2001