Hi everyone,
It is very simple. With the help of top management, ask the system admin to restrict the website and other software as needed. Before implementing any changes, provide a notice to all employees regarding the actions you are planning to take.
From India, Pondicherry
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3It is very simple. With the help of top management, ask the system admin to restrict the website and other software as needed. Before implementing any changes, provide a notice to all employees regarding the actions you are planning to take.
From India, Pondicherry
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Dear Friends,
Our friend is asking how to restrict playing games and accessing social networking sites during office hours. We have received sufficient feedback from our members on how to block and stop social networking websites. However, it is not possible to prevent games entirely. Even if all games are deleted from the system, employees may bring games on a pendrive or mobile device and connect to the system to play during work hours.
How can we prevent employees from playing games on the system during working hours? A brainstorming session on this topic would be greatly beneficial for all members experiencing this issue in their workplace.
From India, Kumbakonam
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Our friend is asking how to restrict playing games and accessing social networking sites during office hours. We have received sufficient feedback from our members on how to block and stop social networking websites. However, it is not possible to prevent games entirely. Even if all games are deleted from the system, employees may bring games on a pendrive or mobile device and connect to the system to play during work hours.
How can we prevent employees from playing games on the system during working hours? A brainstorming session on this topic would be greatly beneficial for all members experiencing this issue in their workplace.
From India, Kumbakonam
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If this is the case, then the problem has been escalated to a new level, i.e., "finding every single possible way to play games during office hours." We've already told them to stop and implemented restrictions on them, but they still play games. I believe to solve this problem, we can no longer solely rely on technology. We have to make this a company-wide cultural problem.
One sure-fire way is to send an email to everybody threatening employees who play games during office hours that their names and "gaming history" will be publicly announced. Before that, we need to ensure we have a defined company internet usage policy clearly stating how much time employees can use for social networking (non-work-related) and entertainment (games, music, online comics, etc.) and what the disciplinary actions are if they violate that policy.
I think this is a fairly common problem in many companies around the world.
From Vietnam, Hanoi
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One sure-fire way is to send an email to everybody threatening employees who play games during office hours that their names and "gaming history" will be publicly announced. Before that, we need to ensure we have a defined company internet usage policy clearly stating how much time employees can use for social networking (non-work-related) and entertainment (games, music, online comics, etc.) and what the disciplinary actions are if they violate that policy.
I think this is a fairly common problem in many companies around the world.
From Vietnam, Hanoi
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Interesting debate... and let me give a slight twist by playing the devil's advocate here... :-)
Let us say you have restricted social sites and have removed all games, and now you are hoping people will start working more. Why? Were they playing games because they didn't want to work (in which case they should not be in the organization in the first place) or because they had nothing else to do (as Dinesh rightly said, not engaged or motivated enough to self-learn or enhance their existing skills)? In either case, the problem source is the organization (HR & management) included and not really the employee... :-)
From another perspective again, let us say you have restricted social sites and have removed all games, and now you are hoping people will start working more. Why? I could be doing the same things on my mobile today. So instead of using your computers openly to play games, I now use my mobile to do so, and now you don't have a single record of what I'm doing. So here is my question to you... What would you prefer, that I do something openly and transparent or would you prefer that I do something on the sly and keep you off the radar... :-)
I don't think restriction is actually working. It used to when mobile technology was not advanced enough but no longer. Dinesh has actually hit the nail... Engagement and Motivation. Those and only those are the two solutions that can help the situation to improve and help in productivity. All others only stop an activity but have no effect on improvement.
I also have a different kind of suggestion. Remove the restrictions totally. On a daily basis, send a report to every employee on how he spent his 8 hours (which site he visited and for how long). Start by sending this report to individual employees. Be polite in the email. Don't reprimand or comment. Just FYI kind of message. After a gap of 1 week, start sending a consolidated report of every employee to the entire team. Let the data be public. From the 3rd week, start using a Multi-color highlighter on employees spending an unusually long time on these sites.
Please note... at no point of time are you reprimanding any employees for this. Just FYI. 4th week have their managers keep this report on his desktop when reviewing team performance... :-) He is not to refer to the report, just look at it when one of his team has not completed their task as desired... :-) You will be surprised at how much all these activities reduce automatically when you do this... lol. Try it and then tell me if it worked...
Cheers,
Navneet Chandra
From India, Delhi
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Let us say you have restricted social sites and have removed all games, and now you are hoping people will start working more. Why? Were they playing games because they didn't want to work (in which case they should not be in the organization in the first place) or because they had nothing else to do (as Dinesh rightly said, not engaged or motivated enough to self-learn or enhance their existing skills)? In either case, the problem source is the organization (HR & management) included and not really the employee... :-)
From another perspective again, let us say you have restricted social sites and have removed all games, and now you are hoping people will start working more. Why? I could be doing the same things on my mobile today. So instead of using your computers openly to play games, I now use my mobile to do so, and now you don't have a single record of what I'm doing. So here is my question to you... What would you prefer, that I do something openly and transparent or would you prefer that I do something on the sly and keep you off the radar... :-)
I don't think restriction is actually working. It used to when mobile technology was not advanced enough but no longer. Dinesh has actually hit the nail... Engagement and Motivation. Those and only those are the two solutions that can help the situation to improve and help in productivity. All others only stop an activity but have no effect on improvement.
I also have a different kind of suggestion. Remove the restrictions totally. On a daily basis, send a report to every employee on how he spent his 8 hours (which site he visited and for how long). Start by sending this report to individual employees. Be polite in the email. Don't reprimand or comment. Just FYI kind of message. After a gap of 1 week, start sending a consolidated report of every employee to the entire team. Let the data be public. From the 3rd week, start using a Multi-color highlighter on employees spending an unusually long time on these sites.
Please note... at no point of time are you reprimanding any employees for this. Just FYI. 4th week have their managers keep this report on his desktop when reviewing team performance... :-) He is not to refer to the report, just look at it when one of his team has not completed their task as desired... :-) You will be surprised at how much all these activities reduce automatically when you do this... lol. Try it and then tell me if it worked...
Cheers,
Navneet Chandra
From India, Delhi
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In earlier days, say about 10 years ago, when we were not computarised, or mobiles not in use, in their leisure time, or when employees want to get relaxed, they use to leave their workplace, and roam around, go to other depts to meet friends, gather in corridors for a cigar, spend some time in canteen, make telephones from company’s land lines, and many other such activities. Now all these activities are replaced by Computarised relaxation. An organization cannot escape from employees enjoying office time for non-office work.
I fully appreciate and accept views expressed by Mr Naveen. It is 100 per cent truth, what he has commented. Very very impressive post !! Cheers…
From India, Mumbai
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I fully appreciate and accept views expressed by Mr Naveen. It is 100 per cent truth, what he has commented. Very very impressive post !! Cheers…
From India, Mumbai
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