We have done the following in our policy:- Clearly defined that personal use is permitted as long as it does not impact the employees work performance and as long as it does not include any of the following:-
* Games * Gambling * Downloading of software * Anything illegal * Pornography * Anything that would be considered an R or X rating if it was a publication or movie. We then use web filtering software to block all the no no's. Sending a "Top 20 Internet Users" report out to managers does a good job at keeping people in line. Managers don't like their staff on that report so they deal with the issue. Word then spreads that we keep an eye on them and it's funny how 99% of people fall in line then. Name and shame works well :) James. From: James Kerr [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, 15 January 2010 12:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Internet Policy I know this has been discussed in the past but I'm in the process of making changes to ours so I was interested in a little input from my peers. We have always had a policy of not allowing our desktops, email and Internet connection to be used for personal use at all. That being said we have always turned a blind eye to occasional personal use through the day. This has been a problem for us. Now we are looking to change the policy to reflect that we do allow this type of use. We want the staff to know that's its ok but we also want them to know what's not ok. I was looking to basically say the following. "Some personal Internet use is allowed but must not interfere with the performance of work duties and responsibilities. Personal Internet use must be restricted to reasonable sites and materials such as news or information that might be considered reasonable if read as a text publication in an office environment." I'm also going to add that downloading files is not allowed unless approved by IT and that this includes email attachments from personal email as well. Any thoughts? James ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
