This is another good opportunity to plug PG's submarine regarding PR. 53 percent of companies block employee surfing? Really? That would mean that more than half of the companies I have worked for so far should have been blocking employee surfing and I've yet to see one. 2/3 of companies will block employee web access by next year? Sounds like one of those PR gimmicks where they manage to publish bogus numbers and then use those numbers to sign on new customers.
Heck news.YC is more of a distraction to me at work than any social network (not anymore thanks to the nonprocrast features).
The truth is employees don't like to be treated like highschool students.
"... Sounds like one of those PR gimmicks where they manage to publish bogus numbers and then use those numbers to sign on new customers. ..."
Could be right. Have you followed this thread where I posted an NYT article that turned out to be just such a sub. [0]
I would have thought the blogging section as an editorial of sorts (not cash for comment) was immune from this. Maybe not? Certainly if you want to push the Journalist on this point they might cough up the real motivation for the story.
The articles cited source is here ~ http://www.barracudanetworks.com/ns/news_and_events/index.ph... and like you point out, hardly an unbiased view. I'm beginning to think the viewpoint of a lot of "New York TImes" articles are compromised and not worth posting.
Heck news.YC is more of a distraction to me at work than any social network (not anymore thanks to the nonprocrast features).
The truth is employees don't like to be treated like highschool students.