Ban Facebook at work, say grouchy corporate bosses
FACEBOOK SHOULD BE BANNED from the workplace, most network and security managers reckon.
A massive 74 per cent of security managers and 71 per cent of network managers, of the 250 who were surveyed, wanted their workers to be anti-social.
Nigel Hawthorn, Vice President of EMEA Marketing at Blue Coat Systems said he was “surprised at the depth of feeling expressed”.
It is always surprising when corporate lackeys express feeling, especially of some depth.
Blue Coat , which makes proxy server appliances used for WAN optimisation, content filtering and stuff commissioned the survey which was carried out by research outfit Rapid Research.
But another study, called The Hyperconnected: Here They Come!, found that, workers aged 24 or younger, consider unbridled access at work a given. The study, commissioned by telecom giant Nortel, and carried out by market analysis outfit IDC, polled 2,400 working adults across 17 countries.
IDC Canada managing director, Vito Mabrucco, said, “there's a lot of pent-up demand for using Web 2.0 tools in business”.
Nortel’s chief technology officer, John Roese cautioned, to those who try to ban Facebook from their offices: “good luck”. µ
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Banning Facebook is simple.
Set your company DNS servers to Open DNS.
Use their services to ban Facebook and Proxy Servers.
Voila, no access to Facebook.
...what if you work at Facebook?
@brian, I'm sure all these network managers know many ways to block facebook, it's just a matter of them finding someone who's big enoough for them to hind behind when all the employee's/unions get all up in a heeby jeeby because they're not allowed onto these sites. As the article said many employee's expect freedom of access (to an extent) to the web at work nowadays.
They wouldn't have to resort to these kinds of measures if the workers weren't abusing their net privileges. There's nothing wrong with keeping the window open to check on it when you take a short work breather to collect your thoughts, but I suspect managers want it banned because more facebooking is going on than working. 
lol @ perisoft
".what if you work at Facebook?

posted by : perisoft, 15 May 2008"

No one 'works' at facebook ;)
How about some work ethic?

When i was 20ish we had work responsibilities , now all i hear is i have rights, what about my rights as an employer to get what I'm paying people for?

When you get paid on contract work, do whatever you like, as long as you get it done on time, when your paid by the hour, i expect my employees best for those hours, thats why its called work, not called how much can i slack off and still look productive.

Most of you don't realize how shitty you are as employees, i certainly didn't realize how shitty an employee i was until i became an employer. 

And before you whine and cry about how great it is to be boss, its more responsibilities, its more work, its more stress, its alot easier being an employee, you just have to perform, and let your boss worry about everything else.

Bottom line slackers get to goof off and find immediate gratification by slacking off and feeling clever every time they cut a corner and the boss doesn't seem to notice, we do we just stfu most of the time, its not worth the aggravation most of the time. 

But look at who gets promoted, look who goes on to quit and start their own companies, its not the whiners and slackers...


John Mason: Your "best"! Losers always whine about doing their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen.