Responding to =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Rasmussen?=, who said:
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> The only difference between surfing the internet and reading various
> personal newspapers, magazines and books during office hours (whether
> they are pornographic or not) is, that surfing cost more money for the
> company.
>
This isn't necessarily true. Many companies have dedicated direct lines
to the Internet (56K, T1), and they pay by the month whether they use it
or not.
I supposed a case could be made that overuse of the Internet for personal
reasons during business hours causes lost revenue due to lost productivity.
Whether employees are more or less productive when they use the Internet
for personal reasons is a subjective argument, IMHO.
> I believe, that once a month, the business manager should receive
> statistics showing the amount of time his businessunit has spent on the
> internet within the last month, along with a calculation of the cost
> involved for using the internet that month.
Again, you assume that Internet access is "pay by the bit". Not necessarily
true for many (most?) businesses. So calculating the "cost" of using the
Internet is impossible.
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