Comments on Gautam Ghosh - Management Consultant: The battle for the internet

I wonder why it is that people abhor the fact that...

2008-03-11T01:08:00.000+05:30

I wonder why it is that people abhor the fact that China and other countries with strong central governments ban their citizens from accessing anything but pre-approved website, but when a company does it, it's called good business.

I don't think employees should be spending their time looking at adult content at work, but those employees get caught pretty quickly, and it's up to the employer to discipline them accordingly. Playing Big Brother is a slippery slope of ethical dilemmas.

Yes this is very true the blocks don't work as eff...

2008-03-10T13:08:00.000+05:30

Yes this is very true the blocks don't work as effectively. And also the IT administrators are a little easy going on stuff like GTalk etc.

It's much better to create a atmosphere where the employees are focussed by themselves

Nitin
My 2 dimes

If a company has to worry about its not employees ...

2008-03-09T13:49:00.000+05:30

If a company has to worry about its not employees not being productive because they are watching too many youtube videos, its the company itself to be blamed for having hiring such kind of people. Also, the more roadblocks you put in keeping people away from these distractions, the more innovative they will become in circumventing these roadblocks. I would guess it will be worthwhile getting these creative innovations channeled to improving the produt/service the company is working on.

I have to wonder if the CIO who freaked out about ...

2008-03-09T01:30:00.000+05:30

I have to wonder if the CIO who freaked out about his employees watching YouTube on their lunch hours freaked out to the same degree when he found out that those same employees were spending far more time than that working on their BlackBerries from home and at their kid's soccer matches. I suspect not.

It really is incredibly hypocritical of employers to page employees a salary, which means they're paid to get the job done and not work a specified number of hours, and then be upset when they find that those same employees are actually taking breaks and re-charging their mental batteries. The horrors!