This is an issue where I tend to get philosophical. I've administered proxies before for controlling web access, but I'm basically opposed to the idea. It's an attempt to solve a people problem with a technology solution. If you have a person who's a slacker and you cut off one avenue of slacking, they'll just find another.
I suggest making sure the person has clear, measurable objectives. If they aren't meeting them, whether it's because of lack of effort or lack of ability, you've got an HR problem that you're going to have to work through. If you implement any sort of universal monitoring and blocking policy, you run the risk of annoying productive workers who are capable of responsible use of company assets. Better to identify and get rid of the problem people (or try to reform them if you can afford the time) based on their non-performance of their duties. The one problem area with my philosophy that I haven't adequately solved for is the case of the highly productive employee who is productive in spite of a lot of time spent slacking off. That can set a bad tone for the folks who aren't as efficient. I've never had one of those myself, but I'm inlcined to believe that the best approach would be to give that person some more challenging work activities that might engage them more. On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Douglass Clem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > All our machines are running Ubuntu, btw. > > The whole purpose of this was that one employee was suspected of misconduct > online (aka browsing the web *a lot* when they should have been working). > The idea was to use the log file reports when confronting the employee. > However, non-related circumstances with said employee have come to surface, > which will most likely make the former issues of minor importance. > > Anyways, I'm not going to pursue the logging stuff any further at the > moment, but it might be useful at a latter point in time, as this is a 9-12 > school. > > Douglass Clem > crashsystems.net > Public Key: http://crashsystems.net/pubkey.asc > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
