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		<title>By: JohnnyBrave</title>
		<link>http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/cio/does-your-internet-usage-policy-make-your-employees-cry/#comment-304</link>
		<dc:creator>JohnnyBrave</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We also noticed this on our work environment. Our employees are very much attached to social networking and other similar sites that actually trigger unproductive time and computer usage. 

We tried blocking those major sites they visit and like what you mentioned, what they only did was they try to bypass it and still were able to gain access. It seems like the more we block it, the more they seek for it and access it. 

Right now, also after having read [A href=&quot;http://www.timedoctor.com/biz3.0/why-you-need-an-internet-computer-usage-policy/&quot;]this article[/A] that explains why businesses actually need computer and internet usage policies, what we did was we unblocked all of those sites again. We just employed a complete time tracking software which monitors their time and computer usage. This actually increased the productivity of workers.

After all, what&#039;s important is that the computer and internet usage policy has to be clear (no matter how strict is) to both the employers and employees. We don&#039;t really want to waste a lot of time at work.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We also noticed this on our work environment. Our employees are very much attached to social networking and other similar sites that actually trigger unproductive time and computer usage. </p>
<p>We tried blocking those major sites they visit and like what you mentioned, what they only did was they try to bypass it and still were able to gain access. It seems like the more we block it, the more they seek for it and access it. </p>
<p>Right now, also after having read [A href="http://www.timedoctor.com/biz3.0/why-you-need-an-internet-computer-usage-policy/"]this article[/A] that explains why businesses actually need computer and internet usage policies, what we did was we unblocked all of those sites again. We just employed a complete time tracking software which monitors their time and computer usage. This actually increased the productivity of workers.</p>
<p>After all, what&#8217;s important is that the computer and internet usage policy has to be clear (no matter how strict is) to both the employers and employees. We don&#8217;t really want to waste a lot of time at work.</p>
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		<title>By: Hlw</title>
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		<dc:creator>Hlw</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 17:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is probably some in-between state that protects both the company&#039;s network and provides the employees reasonable freedom to connect.  I&#039;ve seen sites like mypersonalbrowser.com which isn&#039;t a proxy but rather creates a totally separate browser outside the corporate network (like say a citrix remote application) which might accomplish this.  It is a pay-for site but it protects the company&#039;s network by not allowing the browser inside the corporate firewall and allows the employee to browse.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is probably some in-between state that protects both the company&#8217;s network and provides the employees reasonable freedom to connect.  I&#8217;ve seen sites like mypersonalbrowser.com which isn&#8217;t a proxy but rather creates a totally separate browser outside the corporate network (like say a citrix remote application) which might accomplish this.  It is a pay-for site but it protects the company&#8217;s network by not allowing the browser inside the corporate firewall and allows the employee to browse.</p>
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