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.
5 Comments:
I don't know how about you but in my company we monitor everything the employee does on the internet. They are told about it before they start and I must say it works.
We are doing exactly the same, but according to data I presented, it’s not a sufficient obstacle in misuse of the internet.
Good question is: has your company dismissed an employee on misuse of the internet during the work hours? I’m very curious!
Unfortunately, I’ve problems with open your blog’s web page. It is problem with eponym server?
I agree with Blogproof. I think it is impossible to monitor the internet traffic. The only chance is to build proper corporation culture. From management side there is easy solution to motivate employees – there must be responsible for tasks and then evaluated. They also have to know, that knowledge development will be rewarded.
I agree with You. In the red corner the corporation culture is very important but in the blue corner isn’t possible work without controlling.
I don't agree with e-grasshopper that it is impossible to monitor the traffic. I spent one year working in Ukraine as a consultant. They have monitored everything, they have a special department doing that - analyzing each connection with the internet, checking each web page you visited. If you did bad - you received a special report on your activities. In my opinion the question is - Is it worth to control it? I don't think so. The best way is to give your staff as many task as they are possible to do at their working hour. If it is not possible, let allow them surf the net! They will learn a lot at that time! It guys problem is how to protect company resources.
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