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internet usage

  • 31-05-2006 9:45am
    #1
    zervi2003
    Closed Accounts Posts: 292 ✭✭


    Hi. Are employers allowed to monitor internet usage, without your knowledge? Fair enough if sites are firewalled etc but say if you went onto a site that wasnt, are employers able to tell/is it legal?

    Is that a bit like having a CCTV system with no signs up?

    Thanks.


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  • #2
    Kinetic^
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,249 ✭✭✭✭Kinetic^


    It's their computer at the end of the day. You've been given it for work and work alone so I'd imagine they have a right to know what you're looking at on the net.


  • #3
    Eoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,263 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    zervi2003 wrote:
    Hi. Are employers allowed to monitor internet usage, without your knowledge? Fair enough if sites are firewalled etc but say if you went onto a site that wasnt, are employers able to tell/is it legal?

    Is that a bit like having a CCTV system with no signs up?

    Thanks.

    Best off trying the "work" forum (or possibly the legal discussion one), this has come up several times before (mostly about email monitoring).

    Any company worth it's salt will have all employees sign an internet usage policy that will allow the employer to record and monitor all usage. I don't know what the situation is if no document is signed, but IMO if you are using your company's facilities then they should have full access to it - definitely internet usage anyway,


  • #4
    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,793 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    It's no big deal really. All employers do is add up all the hours you spend on the net each month and deduct that amount from your earnings. Simple and fair.


  • #5
    OSiriS
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,657 ✭✭✭OSiriS


    If that happened in my last job I would have owed them money!


  • #6
    Eoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,263 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    It looks like internet usage is not specifically legislated for, link here.

    It seems that the policy should be made very clear to the employees, but as far as I can tell, these are more recommendations then rules.


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  • #7
    Siogfinsceal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,915 ✭✭✭Siogfinsceal


    most companies can monitor you as they usually have it somewhere in the fine priont in your contract or in one of their policies. I know our place has a policy on it stated in their internal intranet. However once your doing your job they dont seem to bothered about you surfing once its not affecting your work. They blocked all the external email though


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