No offense Brian, but remind me not to acquire your company.
I agree with Brian (the other one) absolutely.
I have people who will do unbelievable amounts of quality work and all I
have to do is not hang on their backs like an albatross.
If my employees are doing their job and not causing me liability issues,
they are welcome to relax in any way that they can. It is hard enough to
keep good employees as it is without trying to keep a 1950's mind set on
top of it.
Richard
At 08:40 06/23/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>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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