IMO, unless it's being used a business tool, ICQ (or any other access to the
Internet) should not be allowed across the corporate LAN, period, unless you
have a "let's close the door after the thieves have made off with the
furniture" approach to network security. That employee was provided with a
PC for business purposes, not to get his jollies on the Internet during
"free" time (as if there's ever such a thing). In our office, we put aside
separate PCs for this purpose, to ensure that the employee doesn't put our
internal systems at risk while fooling around on the Internet.
Brian Steele
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian J. Murrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 8:15 AM
Subject: Re: icq
> from the quill of an unamed poster
> > But ultimaltely manager say that we technical ppl should block the
> > sites and
> > dont give access to them...
> > so tell me what do we do..
>
> But "access to sites" is not ultimately the issue is it? Productivity
> and liability are the real issues, no? What does it matter if an
> employee does a little ICQ (or web surfing or a zillion other things
> that people want to block outbound) on company time as long as he is not
> putting the company in jeopardy (the liability part) and he is meeting
> the objectives set by his manager? His manager is setting objectives
> right? The employees "effectiveness" is measurable right? I suspect
> not.
>
> Think of it this way. If expectations and objectives are set for the
> employee and he is meeting them, then ICQ (in your case, web surfing in
> lots of other cases) is his little reward for being an effective and
> efficient employee. Or perhaps it is the policy of your management to
> reward effective and efficient employees with more work to occupy that
> time that they earned by doing their job faster and better than was
> expected of them. Sure sounds like a good way to keep employees happy
> to me. NOT!
>
> b.
>
>
>
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