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Jenna Jameson now has a 9-to-5 job. Fully one quarter of employees who use the Internet visit porn sites during the workday, according to October figures from Nielsen Online; that's up from 23 percent a year ago. And hits are highest during office hours than at any other time of day, reports M. J. McMahon, publisher of AVN Online magazine, which tracks the adult video industry.
Report: More Employees Visiting Porn Sites At Work
Seeded on Mon Dec 1, 2008 10:33 AM EST
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The threat to companies isn't just the lost hours of productivity and the risk of sexual-harassment lawsuits.
Office jobs these days are mostly pathetic. Visiting adult websites is not the cause, it's the symptom, it's incidental. Heavy-handed policies won't work - you have to make people WANT to stop.
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#1 - Mon Dec 1, 2008 10:49 AM ESTThe threat to companies isn't just the lost hours of productivity and the risk of sexual-harassment lawsuits. Adult sites also expose computers to viruses, adware and spyware . . .
I'm sure porn sites are dirtier (have more malware) than non-porn web sites. I mean someone has to pay for all that 'free' porn.
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AVN's McMahon attributes the rise in workplace porn to the proliferation of free Web sites, such as xtube.com, that allow users to quickly log on and off.
That's interesting and backs up an assertion I made a while ago that Tube technology - free anonymous-upload streaming video - is gonna kill the porn industry.
I'm pretty sure that there are a lot of no-pop-up options with YouTubeish players that has made porn even easier to grab for free than it already was.
[Not that I'm gonna do any research; I'm at work.]
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So would an article with links to some of the best free porn sites with YouTubeish players be within the CoH/User Agreement? Just askin'....
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I'm pretty sure that there are a lot of no-pop-up options with YouTubeish players that has made porn even easier to grab for free than it already was.
Lately I have noticed wierd pop-ups on some, but otherwise, I agree.
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So would an article with links to some of the best free porn sites with YouTubeish players be within the CoH/User Agreement? Just askin'....
Uh, let's not. OVGuide has an adult section. That and Fleshbot should be all anyone needs. [Seriously, as a 22-year-old, this next generation of porn, uh, consumers is just spoiled. And I grew up with the internet.]
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[Seriously, as a 22-year-old, this next generation of porn, uh, consumers is just spoiled. And I grew up with the internet.]
Why, back in my day, we had to sneak into the living room to watch Skinemax! Now get off mah lawn, ya damn hooligans! GIVE ME BACK MY CANE!
:P
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Why, back in my day, we had to sneak into the living room to watch Skinemax! Now get off mah lawn, ya damn hooligans! GIVE ME BACK MY CANE!
Hey, man, at least you had TV. Think of the poor Tijuana Bible generation.
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It must have been hell--imagine the paper cuts on such delicate organs. :O
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That strikes me as odd because more employers have implemented content filtering.
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#2 - Mon Dec 1, 2008 10:51 AM ESTMaybe the guys in the IT dept. exclude themselves? Or the top level suits 'need' unfiltered internet access for the good of the stockholders, of course.
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I don't know about IT departments, but I know that back at my high school, if you wanted to get into stuff outside the firewall, it was pretty damn easy if you're even somewhat internet-savvy. I imagine it would be even easier for your standard, cubicle code monkey to do the same.
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I work at a church.....even if we wanted to trust me we cant and have an extremely liberal internet usage policy......it's basically the honor system.
But, seriously who would want to do it at work? LOL that's just wrong on so many levels.
I know people at other offices who visit sites and the reason they state they can......because they're buds with the IT department.
but regardless.....GET A ROOM!
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#3 - Mon Dec 1, 2008 10:56 AM EST"I work at a church.....even if we wanted to trust me we cant and have an extremely liberal internet usage policy......it's basically the honor system."
The LORD: The Ultimate Firewall System.
Sorry. Couldn't resist.
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I'm not doubting the statistic, but I'm also wondering how loosely this is defining "porn sites." My office's porn blocker has restricted me from plenty of sites that have nothing to do with porn, usually because they use "bad language." Most of the time these are humor sites, without a T or A to see amongst the comedy.
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#4 - Mon Dec 1, 2008 11:39 AM ESTOur filter is just evil - I have been blocked from the most random sites for various reasons. Sexton University? Ahem... out. Random pages when purveying carpet colors? Out - and we can't figure out why.
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carpet
Um...yeah, I hate to tell you, but your work blocker thinks that 'carpet' is a bad word.
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One of the reasons Beaver College near Philadelphia changed their name was due to internet filters.
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In my company we only have a content filter on our hourly employees, who make up about 80% of our staff. Those of us who are salaried go through a proxy server but we have no content filtering. I haven't seen anybody stupid enough to be surfing porn at work though, but people do like to keep up with their sports teams, personal email, the news, and a couple of us are Newsviners.
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Newsvine gets through just fine, so is CBS and MSNBC - but CNN is blocked. Heh.
No personal email, and I had to fight to get them not to block all of Google. Told them that what is the purpose of net access if we can't use the Google to find stuff? Sheesh.
And I would think that carpet is bad, except we were looking at carpet for at least 30 minutes. I'm guessing that one of the names was "beaver brown" or something. ;)
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Growing up I was frustrated with the Spice channel. Hours spent trying to make out some sort of body part through countless scribbled lines - then only to learn that the Spice channel was some of the most harmless porn (compared to what is available now...)
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