filtering Internet

They have every right to do that. After all, they are buying your time to do a job, not surf the net. Home is the place to access social networks and personal emails. When you do so at work you are stealing from your employer, stealing the time they are paying you for to do a job.

That's their right, you where employed to do a specific job, and if those sites are not covered by your job description then you have no right to do it there, in your office or your company. Of course they have no control with what ever you do outside the office unless it will contradict or violate a particular company rule.

I think nothing's wrong with that thing. Social networking sites can lowering our working performance. That's why there are alot of company filtering their internet access to such sites. In my company, we even can't use our office internet for normal surfing. That is because all of the employee must show their full performance on working hours. We only use intranet for sending and receiving email from one department to other department. But for our own internet access, most of us using mobile internet from our own mobile phone. So, we are not depending our internet access to our company's bandwidth. I think this is quite fair for us because we all are professionals in our majority, so that's why we don't want to lowering our performance if we can surf our social networking account such as facebook while working. My company is an oil and gas company. As an energy company, we have a strong relationship with government because we handling oil and gas which use for citizen's prosperity. That's why we must show our best performance. Good luck and have a nice day. Happy mylotting.

Well companies really have the right to block access to sites if it is not job related. especially social networking sites; these sites such as facebook are not good to be accessible in a company workplace. These sites will just make employees to relax and not to do their work. However, if the company trust its employees that they prioritize their jobs before anything else, then that would be great, and a healthier relationship between employee and employer will exist. This relationship however requires discipline among employees, not to abuse the laxness of a the employer.

I am all for a company exercising this right, especially if they have a good reason for doing so. I work in a hospital and our access is restricted in order to keep bandwidth from from being tied. When doctors and nurses need info on a patient in a trauma, they don't need to be slowed down by people posting to facebook or watching youtube.