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The Triangulation of Time Wasted

       Time wasted at work is becoming a major issue for employers ranging from small-to-medium business all the way to the Fortune 500 companies. This delinquent behavior poses a challenge for employers especially at a time when meeting demand is absolutely critical for today’s success.      The average employee wastes between 30% and 40% of their day surfing the Internet for personal/non-work related...

But what are they REALLY doing?

Do you ever really know what the computers in your network are being used for? Sure they perform the daily functions you expect them to but is there anything else these systems are being used for? If someone was using one of these computers to commit a crime or hack into another system, or launch a distributed denial of service attack against someone else, would you ever know it? This is (in my opinion) one of the...

Pay For Play

Online gamers are everywhere. Either you know one, or you are one. According to Market researcher NPD Group the average number of hours spent on online gaming has risen for the third consecutive year. That bodes well for this fast-growing segment of the game industry, which includes everything from casual online poker games to hardcore multiplayer online matches on the game consoles but doesn’t bode as well...

20% of Employee Time Lost to Social Networking

According to a survey from salary.com, 20% of employees time is spent on social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace.  These numbers are further confirmed when you analyze how many minutes are spent on Facebook each day during working hours.  Over 76 milliion Americans use Facebook and about one half of those people login every day.  Stop for a second and think about that last paragraph.  It...

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