Comments on: Portsmouth Council Ban Facebook http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200909/portsmouth-council-ban-facebook/ ranting and rambling to anyone willing to listen Tue, 08 Sep 2009 03:36:28 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: The knives are out for the public sector « Flip Chart Fairy Tales http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200909/portsmouth-council-ban-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-57428 The knives are out for the public sector « Flip Chart Fairy Tales Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:40:48 +0000 http://www.thepickards.co.uk/?p=3538#comment-57428 [...] [...] [...] [...]

]]> By: Chris Burke http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200909/portsmouth-council-ban-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-57365 Chris Burke Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:04:31 +0000 http://www.thepickards.co.uk/?p=3538#comment-57365 Your points seem spot on, without proper reporting it's impossible to say. I would hazard a guess that a large percentage of that usage would have been during lunch hours. It might be worth pointing out that access at other times could be justified at a manager's discretion; if for example the person usually arrives early or stays late, or they worked through lunch, etc. Also, I believe for health and saftey reasons people who work with computers are allowed to take more than a 16.52 second break away from their screen each day. Our IT are implementing a new system here at some point which will give us access to such sites during lunch hours (12pm-2pm). Currently they are blocked at all times unless specific access is requested. By the way, I (a council worker) just spent atleast 6 minutes reading this... I am on my lunch break though. :) Your points seem spot on, without proper reporting it’s impossible to say. I would hazard a guess that a large percentage of that usage would have been during lunch hours.

It might be worth pointing out that access at other times could be justified at a manager’s discretion; if for example the person usually arrives early or stays late, or they worked through lunch, etc.

Also, I believe for health and saftey reasons people who work with computers are allowed to take more than a 16.52 second break away from their screen each day.

Our IT are implementing a new system here at some point which will give us access to such sites during lunch hours (12pm-2pm). Currently they are blocked at all times unless specific access is requested.

By the way, I (a council worker) just spent atleast 6 minutes reading this… I am on my lunch break though. :)

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