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I know my company has an automated checking system set up, but from what I understand there has to be an extraordinary number of hits on a specific site for any one to notice. Even when it does get noticed, I don't believe management is alerted. The site is just blocked. That's what I hear from a colleague. And I think someone got canned for porn.
It's just plain stupidity and lack of common sense for someone to surf porn at work. They do monitor you but especially if you're on the "blacklist" or is close to getting fired(bad performance most likely). They'll monitor your usage for more ammunition when they're ready to can you. If you do your work and have good time management skills, then you probably won't be monitored for the most part. Oh yeah, don't think there isn't a blacklist at most employers. Though, you have to do something wrong to justify it.
OK, I'll offer an analogy. If your neighbour allowed his/her dog to poop on your lawn, it's wrong for the same reason that visiting porn on your employer's computer is wrong. It is their computer network, as it is your lawn. It's just an issue of property rights.
All Internet traffic on most company computer systems is monitored, and rightfully so.
I dont pay my employees to dick around on facebook, text their significant others throughout the day, or to generally waste time. I pay them to work. They get 30 minutes at lunch in which they can text and FB (from their phones, not our computers) to their hearts' content... Any other time, and its NOT okay.
and if I found out they were looking up porn on our computers, I'd fire them on the spot. There's no justification for it whatsoever. Our computers are the lifeline to our business.. I dont need anyone downloading spyware and malware unknowingly and damaging company property, and essentially, our livelihoods.
The thing is, there have always been two kinds of employers: those that think of their workers as their greatest asset, and those that think of them as their greatest burden.
The latter category has always looked for ways to punish their workers for being human. The internet just gives them new ways of doing it. Before facebook, they monitored internet use, before that cell phone use, before that coffee and restroom breaks. There will always be those kinds of employers.
I can understand people being monitored while at work or using work computers/phones. However, I have a huge problem with employers who check social networking sites prior to hiring a person. I don't understand why personal lives need to be brought into work. It's none of the employer's business what employees do on their own time.
I can understand people being monitored while at work or using work computers/phones. However, I have a huge problem with employers who check social networking sites prior to hiring a person. I don't understand why personal lives need to be brought into work. It's none of the employer's business what employees do on their own time.
I can understand people being monitored while at work or using work computers/phones. However, I have a huge problem with employers who check social networking sites prior to hiring a person. I don't understand why personal lives need to be brought into work. It's none of the employer's business what employees do on their own time.
I disagree. You can find out a lot about what type of employee a person will be by looking. DO they constantly complain about their employer? Post things about the companies customers? Talk about calling in sick because they were too hungover to go in? There are a number of things that a social netowrking profile can reveal about what type of employee you'd be.
If you put it out there for the world to see, it's well within a hiring managers right to look--they are part of the world as well.
The thing is, there have always been two kinds of employers: those that think of their workers as their greatest asset, and those that think of them as their greatest burden.
The latter category has always looked for ways to punish their workers for being human. The internet just gives them new ways of doing it. Before facebook, they monitored internet use, before that cell phone use, before that coffee and restroom breaks. There will always be those kinds of employers.
I don't agree. There are some things that are just never appropriate in a work environment. Using a company's computer to check your facebook or post things on your myspace, etc is IMHO never appropriate (unless it is part of your job-- I suppose there are some where a facebook presence or posting on a facebook is appropriate).
Checking your bank account, paying bills, looking up a doctor's address, checking a school page, news site, etc-- I have never worked ANYWHERE where that is not allowed.
Monitoring is not about the inherent personal uses of the internet that employees end up using during the day, but monitoring is for those who have no concept of what is appropriate at work or do it ALL day long.
In my opinion may be talking about two types of employers, but you are also talking about two types of employees: those who use the internet every once in awhile for incidental uses and those who basically try to find anything to do that is not work related.
I can understand people being monitored while at work or using work computers/phones. However, I have a huge problem with employers who check social networking sites prior to hiring a person. I don't understand why personal lives need to be brought into work. It's none of the employer's business what employees do on their own time.
You are right, it is NONE of my business.
However, if someone sets their social networking pages to open and allows anyone to see them-- that does make me question their decision making.
Or as my company believes, your personal life is your personal life, but if you bring attention to where you work or have a very open lifestyle then it needs to be something that many of our customers would not cringe over-- (i.e. think about the kind of information that a bank or a large financial services company could have about you---)
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