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CO Hummer
07-06-2006, 03:25 PM
Please get back to work and stop using company resources to surf the web. Thanks for your support.

-Elcova Moderators

CO Hummer
07-06-2006, 03:28 PM
On the brighter side, you might ask your boss to read this:

http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/50169.html

KenP
07-06-2006, 03:50 PM
On the brighter side, you might ask your boss to read this:

http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/50169.html
From that article:"It should be observed that the Internet has become the modern equivalent of a telephone or a daily newspaper, providing a combination of communication and information that most employees use as frequently in their personal lives as for their work," he wrote.Compare that with this:
http://www.websense.com/global/en/PressRoom/PressReleases/PressReleaseDetail/?Release=050719976

$178 Billion in Employee Productivity Lost in the U.S. Annually Due to Internet Misuse, Reports Websense, Inc.
Workers rely on web to perform personal tasks on company time, draining employee output
SAN DIEGO July 19, 2005 -- Websense, Inc. (NASDAQ: WBSN), the world?s leading provider of employee internet management solutions, today announced that internet misuse in the workplace costs American corporations more than $178 billion annually in lost productivity. This translates into a loss of more than $5,000 per employee per year.

Bully13
07-07-2006, 06:23 AM
$178 Billion in Employee Productivity Lost in the U.S. Annually Due to Internet Misuse, Reports Websense, Inc.
Workers rely on web to perform personal tasks on company time, draining employee output
SAN DIEGO July 19, 2005 -- Websense, Inc. (NASDAQ: WBSN), the world?s leading provider of employee internet management solutions, today announced that internet misuse in the workplace costs American corporations more than $178 billion annually in lost productivity. This translates into a loss of more than $5,000 per employee per year.

Yeah, but people have allways been slacking off wasting money. Nothing changed, just time and technology I think.

Steve - SanJose
07-07-2006, 04:41 PM
Yea like dollarizing the waste is an exact science. :)

S.

Sewie
07-07-2006, 05:22 PM
And how much time and money was wasted on that study? :p :D

Besides, I call it multi-tasking. ;)

CO Hummer
07-07-2006, 09:45 PM
C'mon Shag. You can post. No one's watching you.