Perspective: It's my Internet--I can do what I want
Employees are roaming free on the Internet for their own personal use while at work, according to a recent survey of more than 10,000 employees by Burstek, a provider of employee Internet management solutions. http://news.com.com/2010-1022_3-6055146.html? part=rss&tag=6055146&subj=news This is a pretty poor news article, imho, has anyone seen the actual study? I'm wondering how they actually operationalize some of their concepts because it seems to me that if employees use the internet for self-improvement, which to my mind includes discussing things with others, and reading, that might not be a direct form of efficiency, but i think that it probably increases the overall efficiency of the workplace by creating a more informed workforce. Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.aoir.org The Association of Internet Researchers http://www.stswiki.org/ stswiki http://cfp.learning-inquiry.info/ LI-the journal
Employees roaming is interesting. Employers watching is worrisome. An increasing number of colleagues (at my institution and elsewhere) have expressed concerns that their chairs, deans, and/or provosts have gotten access to their campus-based mail accounts, including citing specific phrases that they believed they had used only in private communications. Anyone have a sense of how likely (or common) that is (in academia or anywhere)? -eg
-----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Jeremy Hunsinger Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 7:39 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] Perspective: It's my Internet--I can do what I want
Employees are roaming free on the Internet for their own personal use while at work, according to a recent survey of more than 10,000 employees by Burstek, a provider of employee Internet management solutions.
http://news.com.com/2010-1022_3-6055146.html? part=rss&tag=6055146&subj=news
This is a pretty poor news article, imho, has anyone seen the actual study? I'm wondering how they actually operationalize some of their concepts because it seems to me that if employees use the internet for self-improvement, which to my mind includes discussing things with others, and reading, that might not be a direct form of efficiency, but i think that it probably increases the overall efficiency of the workplace by creating a more informed workforce.
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I tend to think that this is paranoia. What is far more likely is that on some messages, various people in the administration are being BCC'd by certain people or other people are forwarding messages. surveillance is much more common in a politically or competitively charged environment, when people have something to gain from it and thus do it to each other.... no? On Mar 30, 2006, at 1:33 PM, Ellis Godard wrote:
Employees roaming is interesting. Employers watching is worrisome. An increasing number of colleagues (at my institution and elsewhere) have expressed concerns that their chairs, deans, and/or provosts have gotten access to their campus-based mail accounts, including citing specific phrases that they believed they had used only in private communications. Anyone have a sense of how likely (or common) that is (in academia or anywhere)?
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Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.aoir.org The Association of Internet Researchers http://www.stswiki.org/ stswiki http://cfp.learning-inquiry.info/ LI-the journal
Employees roaming is interesting. Employers watching is worrisome. An increasing number of colleagues (at my institution and elsewhere) have expressed concerns that their chairs, deans, and/or provosts have gotten access to their campus-based mail accounts, including citing specific phrases that they believed they had used only in private communications. Anyone have a sense of how likely (or common) that is (in academia or anywhere)?
Indiana has a ton of sunshine laws. Nothing sent to an indiana.edu mail account is really 'private' - rather, things are eminently subpoena-able. --e
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