Originally Posted by Seer
No idea about your company, but circumventing company restrictions means you're out of a job.
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Yeah... this. If they put up a block and you make any attempt to go around it, you're fired... no questions asked. In fact, you can browse the web all day and never get in trouble... it's when they catch you circumventing a block that you get toasted.
On the subject of blocking web access and productivity, there's studies out there that show that people who use the web for brief "mental breaks" actually have higher productivity than the drones who spend all day task focused. They found the more restrictive a company's web access policies (for any given two companies in the same business) the lower the productivity and visa versa.
And, quite frankly, with the number of smart phones in the workplace now, people are going to get around the blocks using their phones and then you have no way to track how much times they're not on task.
An overzealous web access policy is counter productive.
I've been accessing WoWI from work all day every day since I was employed there and I am still the most productive and reliable software engineer they have. All they've done with this new policy is irritate a good employee.