Technically I don't work, I'm a research student. But it's not too dissimilar to a full time job, I work in an office with my own desk and computer, colleagues surround me, etc. Usually I'm quite good at not checking VGChartz, I might do it at lunch and that's it.
But today I'm not feeling so dedicated, I've checked VGChartz several times when I should be working. Maybe it's because I'm one of two people in the office today so I'm surfing the internet to fill the conversational gaps (everyone's gone on their summer holidays while not much is going on). Maybe it's also because it's premier league transfer deadline day and I've had a browser occupying half a monitor all day so I can keep up with the latest news, which makes me think about surfing the internet more often. My work's still getting done though, so it's not too bad.
As for being monitored, our web history is logged but we don't get punished for surfing non-work related websites (in fact, I doubt anyone even checks it).
