Roger Marquis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Competitor's websites, termination..., sounds like a company I wouldn't
> want to work for. It's difficult and expensive to hire and retain good
> people. An unobtrusive amount of pornographic web usage is something
> most companies would have a hard time making a business case against.
> We talking policy here, not law. Privacy and bandwidth are, to a
> reasonable degree, perks. At least they are where management realizes
> that good employees can find another job easily given the economy.
>
> If an employee isn't doing their job that's another issue. As long as
> they're productive a certain amount of tolerance is good policy.
One of my customers has 40000 employees. 800 of them are working
in the IT department.
The funny thing is now, that the top Internet users are NOT the
IT guys. Even if they download tons of fixes, patches, software
and so. Top users are common users like accountants and so.
If you calculate the time it takes to see all the pages they
select, you will end up at an average time of >8 hours 20 days
per month for the top surfers. Now you have 0.5% or 200 users
matching the above numbers. Assuming a salary of US$ 2000 (which
is very low) per month you have an amount of US$ 400'000 wasted
every month.
Now you have 1% or 400 users just surfing just 4 hours per day,
that gives you another US$ 400'000.
Now we are at US$ 800'000 per month just for the salaries which
are lost. Just to be clear, the above surfers do not surf
business related and these figures are not fiction. It is pure
reality.
If from this 40000 employees a computer operator accesses some
adult sites, nobody cares. This person has to be there anyway
and if the all systems are running stable it is a very boring
job. If a top network crack spends 10 minutes a day watching
some nude bodys, but the rest of the time he works like crazy,
nobody cares. But again, the computer operators are somewhere on
place 5000 on the hitlist and the network crack is somewhere at
10000 on the hitlist.
If you belong to the higher management and you see these
figures, what do you do? First you warn these surfers and if
there is no change you get rid of them! At the end of the year
you spent US$ 10'000'000 just for the pleasure of some (1,5%)
employees!
have fun ...
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