Modern Vespa

Actually no...you?

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Cheerio,
SDG

Do you think we have time?

I can't argue a single point, and I'm glad it works for you. Unfortunately it's not as easy to simply put it on the back of management style. Eventuelly we end up with employees who misuse the resource. Witch is precisely why, youtube and many other sites are now locked. More than once I referred to my job as the vasectomy that didn't work. I suppervised plenty of kids over 40! I'm happy you have the freedom and are responsible. However you would only have to have a cursery look around here to find quite a few high count posters who are doing so from their work place. Those types are operating as children and it is stealing.

Employee Computer & Internet Abuse Statistics
30 to 40% of Internet use in the workplace is not related to business.

64% of employees say they use the Internet for personal interest during
working hours
70% of all Internet porn traffic occurs during the nine-to-five work day.
37% of workers say they surf the Web constantly at work.
77.7% of major U.S. companies keep tabs on employees by checking their e-mail, Internet, phone calls, computer files, or by videotaping them at work.
63% of companies monitor workers' Internet connections and 47% store and review employee e-mail.
27% of companies say that they've fired employees for misuse of office e-mail or Internet connections, and 65% report some disciplinary measure for those offenses.
According to a survey by International Data Corp (IDC), 30 to 40% of internet access is spent on non work related browsing, and a staggering 60% of all online purchases are made during working hours.
90 percent of employees feel the Internet can be addictive, and 41 percent admit to personal surfing at work for more than three hours per week.
Some estimates reveal that computer crime may cost as much as $50 billion per year.
Around 80% of computer crime is committed by "insiders". They manage to steal $100 million by some estimates; $1 billion by others.
The average fraud inflicts a loss of about $110,000 per corporate/organization victim, and $15,000 to each individual victim.
60% of Security Breaches occur within the Company - behind the Firewall
25% of corporate Internet traffic is considered to be "unrelated to
work".
30-40% of lost productivity is accounted for by cyber-slacking.
Most studies show 70% of companies have had sex sites accessed using
their network.
32.6% of workers surf the net with no specific objective; men are twice
as likely as women.
When asked "should employers monitor, limit, block or control your
Internet access while at work?" over 60 % of employees said "yes".
On average, workers spend 21 hours per week online at the office, as oppose to only 9.5 hours at home
27% of Fortune 500 organisations have defended themselves against claims of sexual harassment stemming from inappropriate email.
Traditionally, employers have been responsible and liable for the actions of their employees in the workplace. However, if an organisation can demonstrate a "duty of care" to reduce unacceptable employee activity, then it could minimize it's potential for liability.
Chevron faces a $2 million lawsuit as a result of an employee's email that allegedly included sexist content.
A company with 1,000 Internet users could lose upwards of $35 million in productivity annually from just an hour of daily Web surfing by employees
90% of respondents (primarily large corporations and government agencies) detected computer security breaches within the previous 12 months, 80% acknowledged financial losses due to computer breaches, 44% were willing and/or able to quantify their losses, at more than $455 million.
The most serious financial losses occurred through theft of proprietary information respondents reported more than $170 million) and financial fraud (respondents reported approximately $116 million).
Estimated that the greatest threat to intellectual property is trusted insiders; 70% of security breaches come from inside.