I have often noticed that there are more active questions in GQ during the week. On weekends, the questions tend to lie fallow and if I have a question, I’m much more likely to get some action on it if I post it during the week. But suddenly, I notice that the questions have tended to go from boldface to regular, indicating a lack of activity, and I wonder if that reflects this recent crackdown I’ve been reading about, wherein the companies have been publicizing the fact that they don’t want their employees playing on-line games, or surfing the net, or, I suppose, learning something on the SDMB on company time. I guess I understand the part about using company time to sell grommets and widgets, so am I really detecting the fallout from this recent treeshaking? Is there really less activity on the bbs during the week lately? Does the bbs track this sort of thing? What’s the straight dope here? Admins?
All companies in the world have simultaneously and abruptly decided to crack down on employee web-surfing? I’m not seeing it. Sure, some companies are deciding to crack down on it, but then, at any given time, some companies are. I can’t imagine that it’d be enough to be significant.
What may have happened, is there might be some nonnegligible portion of members who are college students, and have easy/cheap/fast Internet access at school, but not so much at home. And they’re all home for the summer now.
I suspect it is more a figment of the media; someone writes a story, it gets picked up and re-reported around the country, and suddenly it is perceived as a new and looming problem, when it has been there all along. Newsflash: the media creates news.
So, I guess this is really my question. Given the recent publicity, whether it reflects actual practice or not, of companies monitoring employee use of computers, is there less use?
Seems the same as always.