Track Employee Web Use / Block certain Websites

[AndrewO]

Opendns will do most of what you want with minimum of fuss

[davepoth]

jonamv8 said:

The employees in question are not expected to conduct any business activities outside of work time. Hence when they are at work the management want them to work.

So they definitely don't have the virtually standard "You may be required to work such additional hours to fully perform your job in accordance with the needs of the business" in their employment contract?

With my team, I look at this completely the other way around. We have quite a strict IT policy within the company which blocks more or less everything social, but everyone has a smartphone. The two measures I have are:

1) Is the person carrying out their job effectively?
2) Is that person's behaviour causing any problems for any other worker in the company?

If there are no complaints from anyone and I'm happy with their work, I quite frankly could not give a st whether they're doing things on their phone. I'll only have a chat to them if their work is suffering or if one of their co-workers has an issue with something.

The other thing that is very important is to make sure it doesn't look like there's one rule for management and another for staff. They see you mucking around on your smartphone in office hours, they don't see you answering emails at 10pm at home.