On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Peter Bruderer wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
Let's see, using this sort of twisted logic:
Let's say I make $100K/year.
That's 40+ hours a week, $2000/week income.
Everytime I take a piss, it takes me about 5 minutes. I figure I pee about
1.5 times a work day. at about $50/hour, that's about $10-20 a day the
company loses when I pee. Multiply this by 40000 employees, and that's US
$400,000-$800,000 wasted every month just for high paid programmers to go
to the bathroom..
If the entire company this that horny, and does it in the bathroom instead
of in their cubes, I guess upper management gets to save money on the
bandwidth, but the time factor rules the savings out.
Beancounting like this does noone any good.
There's a wonderful book, called "How to lie with statistics." You should
read it.
-john
(I just wasted ten minutes of company time doing this math.)
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