HOW MUCH MORE PAPERWORK DO WE WANT THEM TO PRODUCE (via The Other Brother)

Sex, gambling and computer game sites being abused by Department of Interior: Inspector General finds Internet abuse costing at least $2 billion a year in lost productivity (Network World Staff, 10/05/06, Network World)

A one-week study by the department's Inspector General found, however, that a lot of abuse is going on. Among the study's findings:

• Computer-use logs revealed more than 4,732 entries relating to sexually explicit Web sites and gambling sites. Some computers accessed sex sites for 30 to 60 minutes during the test period.

• This activity accounted for more than 24 hours of Internet use during the sample period, which did not include a review of e-mail or other means of transferring prohibited material.

• More than 1 million log entries were discovered indicating 7,763 Department computer users spent 2,004-plus hours accessing game and auction sites. Extrapolated over the year, that could account for 100,000 lost work hours. Put another way, this would equal 50 full-time employees doing nothing but surfing online game and auction sites.

You'd rather have bureaucrats doing that than their work, but realistically no one has a job that requires more than two hours of effort a day.

Posted by Orrin Judd at October 5, 2006 9:11 PM