Great - my company has blocked vgchartz.com

[NJ5]

Words Of Wisdom said:

NJ5 said:

theword said:
It seems most of us use boredom as an excuse to spend company times on personal interest. But responsible employees would find something work related to work on or ask their supervisors to give them assignment during slow times. As a manager of more than 40 employees, this is the work ethics I want to see all my employees have, but seldom find!

Let me put it this way... if people don't waste time reading things on the Internet, they'll spend time daydreaming, taking longer bathroom trips, idling by the watercooler or whatever. Most people have limited focus and energy and they'll always find ways to balance their work time with their resting time.

The argument that employees should be allowed to slack off by reading forums because otherwise they'll just find a different way to slack off is bad one. 

You pay employees for 8 or however many hours of work a day and they give you 8 or however many hours of work a day.  If you have employees that want to give you 6 hours of work and spend 2 hours of work reading forums then you probably need new employees.  With today's economy, there's no shortage of people looking for work either.

I think you misunderstood my point. I'm not saying they "should be allowed to slack off". I'm saying they either do or don't, and the ones that do aren't going to work more because you block one of the ways of slacking off. The only thing that's likely to happen is that they'll be less happy with their job. Micro-managing people to change their habits is very hard.

Incidentally I also believe that the vast majority of employees are not equally productive every day. Do you believe otherwise