Re: Theo Pahitis discussing Facebook

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On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 08:46:08 +0100, "Ret." <xxx> wrote:

..........the worrying development of our times is that this binge
of shallow introspection has now infected the workplace, with
employees spending huge amounts of their office time on social
networking websites. The problem was graphically highlighted this
week by the decision of Portsmouth City Council to ban their staff
from using Facebook after it was
discovered that municipal workers were logging onto the site up to
270,000
times a month. During the past year, it has been estimated that
Portsmouth
City Hall employees have spent an average of 413 hours a month on
Facebook.

This is a phenomenal amount of time to be frittering away on an
essentially
unproductive activity completely unrelated to work or the needs of
the city
of Portsmouth.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1210564/THEO-PAPHITIS-Why-ALL-bosses-I-did-ban-staff-Facebook.html#ixzz0PvuFpdXO

I often wonder how many NG posters are doing all their posting at
their bosses expense!!

It's a very simple thing for companies to police. Before I retired,
all the computers in the office complex were monitored remotely and
this was back in 2001.

It's not exactly difficult to restrict employees' internet access and
filter out the "social networking" sites. But how many of these
people actually *need* internet access to perform their work? If
they're spending 450 hours per month on Facebook, how many more
hours are they spending checking (non-work) mails, shopping, gaming
etc? No wonder Pompey is such a dump.

I wondered about this myself. I used computers at work for many years
but I only had access to Cheshire Police intra-net and not to the
web. Why do all these workers require wider internet access?

Kev

Pron


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