A Day at the Water

Recently I wonderd why provide Internet at the workplace the argument often presented is that the Internet would increase productivity and make it easier to share information. But it is also true that it is a great deal easier to do anything but work if Internet access is provided a lot of the information sharing can easily done in a big Intranet which would be safer from a security stand point. And of course people would not be able to check their e-mail and access their facebook or similar accounts from work never mind the checking of such websites as failblog.org or general entertainement sides. It makes you wonder if this increases productivity or if it actually causes more of an efficiency problem.
Employees have always had ways of spending their time differently but it seems that interenet is making it even easier then ever before.

Which leads me back to the question is it better or worse to provide internet access at the workplace. To me it seems a lot more efficient to use Intranets and cut Internet out of the Professional world entirely.