BORYS DBE blog - CYBER SLACKING

A Cyber Slacking risk

Risk created by misuse of the internet:
· pirating copyrighted materials, raising legal liabilities for their employer,
· installing unlicensed software,
· creating a hostile workplace by downloading offensive material, which besides being bad in itself, gives grounds for claims to employment tribunals,
· revealing company information or libelling other firms or individuals in emails,
· increased risk of viruses and hacker attacks,
· accidental (or deliberate) release of confidential information,
· wasted staff productivity through personal use of the internet on company time,
· non-business traffic, especially data-heavy video and audio, clogs network bandwidth and slows down legitimate traffic.

Accordnig to data presented on Security Bulletin third of companies have been forced to discipline staff for digital delinquency including downloading pornography, sending rude emails and job hunting on company time. An American software developer found that 77% of company networks unwittingly hosted some form of Napster-like peer to peer file sharing software, which employees were using to distribute pirate music and software and that 70% of internet porn traffic occurs between 9am and 5pm. It has become the biggest disciplinary problem for employers.

posted by Borys @ 17:24 5 comments

Your employees are hard at work at their computers and browsing the web. But are they doing it for the company?

Not completely, according to a Web@Work survey (commissioned by Websense - California based provider of employee Internet management solutions).
Across eight regions of the world, 83 per cent of respondents said they surfed non-work-related websites during office hours. Chinese office workers are the worst, concludes the survey, because they spend more than one hour a day on personal usage. Specifically, Chinese employees spend 5.6 hours per week on personal Internet usage in the workplace, 1.4 hours more than the average of 4.2 hours for companies in the Asia Pacific region.
While only 26 per cent of workers in India handle personal e-mail during office hours, the figure is a whopping 60 per cent in China.
In other areas, 16 per cent more Chinese devote work time to downloading music than Latin Americans, 8 per cent more to online chatting and 12 per cent more to online games, than the next worst offenders.
Employers in China are taking notice. IT managers across the nation estimate the average weekly time for personal surfing is even higher than the survey's finding - at 6.2 hours!

[People's Daily Online]

posted by Borys @ 23:16 2 comments

CYBER SLACKING - the subject of my blog

Today, after the many weeks of the hesitations, I’ve decided to choose the subject of my blog.
Ladies and gentlemen! The winner is...
CYBER SLACKING

What it means? I suppose, that every of us met this problem in his enterprise.
So, what is a definition of cyber slacking is? Is the practice of emloyees using the Internet or other employer-provided resources for leisure during work hours, contributing to inefficiency. [www.wikipedia.com].
In accordance to results of the researches published on the Internet, app. 90% of the employees in USA are using Internet during theirs working hours for private use. When I've started looking for interesting information about the CYBER SLACKING, I found alarming data. Newsweek reports in end of nineties: “personal surfing and e-mailing can seriously strain a company's computer network” this is a cost of $1 billion a year in wasted computer resources, plus "billions of dollars in lost productivity" [Newsweek, November 1999]
The problem is growing...

Trying to concentrate on my work without checking my BLOG every 5 minutes I'm waiting for Your comments about the CYBER SLACKING after the 6 p.m. please ; ]

posted by Borys @ 11:53 2 comments