Facebook blocked at 50% of companies

Can you access Facebook at work?

  • Yes

    Votes: 40 50.0%

  • No

    Votes: 40 50.0%
  • Total voters
    80
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Facebook blocked at work

More than half of US companies do not allow employees to visit social networks such as Facebook, MySpace or Twitter while at work, according to a new survey.
 
We're blocked from FB, Twitter and all manner of other 'evils' ... :eek:

Well, okay, few would be doing any meaningful work if FB and the like were accessible.
 
I hate FB in the work place. I had a staff member cost me a client and just over R300k in lost revenue due to FB. He would spend at least 2/3 of his average working day in FB.
Even after catching him out and giving a warning, he could not stop.
 
LinkedIn >>>>>>>>>>>> FB.

Of course LinkedIn is professional (and pay only).
 
Funny enough, Facebook is open here but a lot of development and coding sites are blocked. But then again, thats why I have my own notebook and 3G with me always
 
I have implemented a policy (at work) where facebook is unblocked during lunch hours. Rest of the time it is blocked. People accepted it, and there's a "rush" during lunch hour to get their stuff done on FB :D

Management is happy as people doesn't waste their time, the hoi polloi's happy as they get their FB fix.

I have blocked porn sites as it is not needed for work, and a couple of other sites as well.

URL Filter with Advanced Proxy on Smoothwall is used to manage the sites. DansGuardian is an excellent content filter as well.

Works quite well.

For the record, I can access FB at work, but I am not interested.
 
I saw a study that was done some time ago where the conclusion was that by allowing the people in the company access to facebook decreased the amount of time they spend on the phone chatting to their friends etc. so much the people's productivity actually increased.
 
Our company doesn't block any sites and things seem to be working fine.
 
Facebook during work hours :mad:
Twitter can still be used for work - especially dev.
Blocking wiki is just plain stupid :mad:

I piggyback on a dedicated line for some of our other communications, so that I don't get delayed while doing research. For example normal line shared by every one else , MSDN take 50secs to load. On this line , with a few select users and other bits, 5 secs or less.

It's not your bandwidth, you have no "rights" to surf non-related material. Quite frankly I think banning internet for those that don't need it should be a must.
 
Kosmik said:
It's not your bandwidth, you have no "rights" to surf non-related material. Quite frankly I think banning internet for those that don't need it should be a must.
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You can do the same with telephones, chatting to co workers, heck even lunch breaks, people can eat at home.

As a employer (and I am one) you have to give in order to keep the people in your company happy. Thats the only way they will work for you and be productive!
 
The whole internet is blocked via a squid proxy, so I can't do much.
However sometimes when we need information, I can obtain a special username and password to the proxy allowing full access, but facebook is blocked as well.

So then I just use webproxies to get on facebook
 
I have not blocked it. Then again I don't access it either. There's only one other person that goes on it sometimes as well, when there is nothing to do. Maybe if we get more irresponsible people...
 
blaaislaai said:
The whole internet is blocked via a squid proxy, so I can't do much.
However sometimes when we need information, I can obtain a special username and password to the proxy allowing full access, but facebook is blocked as well.

So then I just use webproxies to get on facebook
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All this effort to play on facebook? Can you not survive without it?
 
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