kissy

September 20, 2010 at 8:17pm

This software program http://www.timedoctor.com/1 uses a better method than blocking Facebook because it just monitors Facebook during work hours. Team members can use it during lunch breaks. Also some people might need to Facebook for their work so it's silly to block it.

kellybriefworld

June 15, 2010 at 11:45am

I think this is a great article. I found an interesting white-paper created by the Palo Alto Networks and it sounds like they have a solution to this problem. Here's the link at the bottom:

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Pete4176

May 29, 2010 at 5:21pm

Being in the Navy onboard an aircraft carrier, we still use IE6.  However, Facebook seems to work fine.  It keeps the Sailors happy while we're deployed.  Can't do much else with it, plus Flash doesn't work, nor Java, so a lot of websites are limited to us in what we can do.  Bandwidth sucks so maybe its a good thing that we can't do much...

zeringue

May 29, 2010 at 10:07am

Its a sad state when companies have to rely on flawed software to keep its employees from wasting time.  I am sure numerous employees waste time at facebook and others.  But shouldnt the employee's manager be managing the employee's productivity.  Should the productivity not be acceptable, find another employee. 

 This county seems have become more acceptable of sub par performance, from food at resteraunts to employees making widgets and cars. 

 Update the IE stop spreading worms/virus

do your job.

gendoikari1

May 28, 2010 at 7:05pm

I was doing some volunteer work at some non-profit when I noticed their workstations were still running IE6. I installed IE8, and this was in November. I come back in March, and IE8 was still there. So, at least the lazy businesses allow you to update it. 

QUINTIX256

May 28, 2010 at 6:59pm

You probably seen those XP PRO terminals locked at 1024x768 for a 1280x1024 screen, with no way to change it...

It has a start menu that doesn't let you do anything but open office, a web browser, and mabye shut down. It may or may not have SP2, but no OS patches that came thereafter. The belief is if nothing can be installed and no configuration can change, it doesn't matter how "insecure" the browser is, just so long as it works.

You can have your recession. I'm not participating.

Dexter243

May 28, 2010 at 4:51pm

Nutcracklng snack

yes thay do use it and any one with half a brain just downloads and starts using firefox at my job 

every one was complaning about the internet being so slow and some sites not working at all so i took my dispatcher and showed her how to download and install Firefox and she then told the other ladies and ther all tearing it up :-) now im so bad 

Mark17

May 28, 2010 at 4:20pm

Someone should kill IE6. Just beat it with a blunt object and make die a painful death.