Two Hours . . . Per DAY

Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 12:36 pm

Two hours. That's how much time a fairly large chunk of American workers with access to the Internet fess up to spending surfing the web, each day. EACH DAY.

Now, two hours is a lot of time. It's enough time to drive from Los Angeles to San Diego (if the traffic is good—wait, is it long enough? Anyway, it's long enough to drive for a while). It's enough time to play a game of Baseball, if you take out television timeouts.

But consider this—if workers are actually admitting to TWO hours of surfing on work time, how much do you think they are REALLY taking? Three? Four?

What if your employees left every afternoon for 3 hours to go watch a movie? Or to take in a baseball game. Or just to wander Costco for a couple hours? Would you be good with that?

So why let it go just because it's happening on their computers in their offices? We have the power, not just to block and allow (because block and allow is SO 1990s), but to actually SHAPE their Internet usage.

The CP Security Appliance can set time limits. It can set bandwidth limits, per user, per group, per application, per WEBSITE, so you can control who goes where, when, and for how long. And how fast (so they don't use up your pipe).

I've said it before, and I'll say it again—if employees were taking reams of copy paper home, you'd object. If they were driving the company car to Disneyland, you'd object. Why shouldn't you object if they spend the day watching YouTube?

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