The Dark Ages
If you are reading this at work, then you work for one of the employers that sees the value of allowing their workers to have full access to the Internet. Or it doesn't have the resources to stop you.
In today's Business Today section, the story Young workers pushing bosses for more Web access explains the situation.
Ryan Tracy thought he’d entered the Dark Ages when he graduated college and arrived in the working world.
His employer blocked access to Facebook, Gmail and other popular Internet sites. He had no wireless access for his laptop and often ran to a nearby cafe on work time so he could use its Wi- Fi connection to send large files.
Sure, the barriers did what his employer intended: They stopped him and his colleagues from using work time to goof around online. But Tracy says the rules also got in the way of legitimate work he needed to do as a scientific analyst for a health care services company.
Related article reminds us how employers may be monitoring your at-work Internet and e-mail use, even cell phone use if you have a company phone.
-- George Pyle/The Buffalo News
