Figures from Australia’s major communications company, Telstra, shows there has been a three-fold increase in Australian employers blocking social network sites in the space of 10 months. During the same period the total number of URLs normally allowed at work has decreased by 58%.
Do these figures mean that employers are cutting back workplace Internet access? Is organizational URL blocking a desperate attempt to decrease Internet costs in our sluggish economic environment? Is it really the best way to decrease costs? What are the hidden costs? To block or not to block, that is the question…
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