Reply #17: My company does not do this

[BluePatriot]

but probably should, in a limited way. They have a "no internet except at lunch" policy...There are people at work who spend 3-4 hrs of their 8 hr day online. My boss gives me her busy work while she surfs MySpace. I know I would get creamed for visiting DU so much but seeing the abuses around me has made me indifferent. People would just revert to getting up and wandering around chatting or hanging out in the kitchen again, anyway, so maybe my company doesn't see the point as long as all the work gets done. Or, they should handle internet use this way -- if someone surfs all day give them more work. If they do it with no trouble they were just bored and needed something to do. No real harm there. If they still surf all day and the work piles up, then the INDIVIDUAL gets taken aside as a problem. I know they may track us soon and I would have a fit. I know we have no legal right to privacy but it's really about human dignity. Would the managers and higher-ups get tracked, too? Pffft. I plan to make the point, how much MORE productive have computers and technology made people in the workplace? Write off the minor abuses, take aside individual repeat offenders, and leave the rest of us alone if we get our work done.



*edit* is 100 percent productivity even POSSIBLE or desirable? Isn't there some threshold where everyone would burn out if they never got to take a break? Maybe I'm set on "work to live" vs. "live to work."