cjbruin wrote:
renorider wrote:
Now you're the one with a sense of humor! To be fair, I don't know anything about you or what type of business you own. In the line of work I'm in, an employer with a policy like what you're hinting at would have a hard time retaining people.
:)
Sadly, that's not far from the truth. It's rare to find employees who give their employers a full-days work. I've seen studies showing that employees spend 10-15 hours per week doing activities that are not related to their jobs.
This standard should be a bit different for hourly versus salaried. For a salaried employee, I'm not sure why it would matter if they spend some of their day on the internet if they're effective at their jobs and delivering what they need to.
My boss wouldn't care if I spent 8 hours a day on the internet and managed to get all my work done in the remaining couple hours of the day, assuming my responsibilities were being taken care of and that the work quality was still high and on-time. Likewise, the folks who work for me are evaluated based on their performance, not on the number of hours they spend at the office. Or how they spend the hours that they are at the office. NSFW content would be a problem though. My internet browsing is done almost exclusively at my desk at work...
-Andrew