Browsing the web at work can cost you your job, at least in Wales where 3 people have lost their jobs for spending up to 2 hours a day on eBay. They were employed by the local council and a council spokesman said:
"We have a policy of allowing employees to use the internet in their own time.
"But we clearly don't want them to use it in council time - at the end of the day they are employed to do a job of work not be shopping online."
The Unions then hit back by saying it was the council's fault for putting temptation in their way (by allowing them internet acess in the first place! ???).
The council servers already block certain sites like porn sites but not eBay.
The British Trade Union accociation has already come out and said its workers have a right to view sites like facebook on company computers.
This does show that there is a backlash now against unrestricted browsing during office hours. I can see a time when even news sites will be blocked as companies crack down more an more.
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