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Originally Posted by Dadhawk
The teams that have access to these kind of records have worked for me my last two companies. Honestly, we just have better things to do than to police this, unless it causes issues or a request is put in to investigate it. We consider this a management, not a technology, issue. Yes we block sites and even entire countries, but we don't monitor utilization or spy on people. Who's got time for that! Now our policies all say we can, and we will if there is a real business need, but that is pretty rare.
It reminds me of phone utilization when I first started my career. In big companies long distance and such was locked down and phones were monitored for personal usage. That eventually ended as the price of the calls became cheaper than the cost of monitoring massive phone bills.
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One of my responsibilities is the management end of internet use (ironic isn't it?). Even from that perspective there isn't time to worry about what people are doing online. A few years back when we paid for the amount of time it was used it made sense but now it is dirt cheap and costs more to monitor than it is worth. We do have several functions that are blocked for most people (entertainment, social media, Youtube, etc) but some have figured out how to get around that. As long as I don't receive a complaint or a request for usage from HR I really don't care what people are doing.