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[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago

Well, since I am IT, I am not about go to snitch on myself.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Only tangentially relevant, human beings get along better with their agenda (that is, are more productive) when they're freely allowed to check email and their lemmy feeds, shop on Amazon and whatever other social media stuff they do. In fact, studies have shown an improvement when they drag overly-focused clerks to their mandated coffee breaks (actual coffee optional).

So if you're getting into trouble for chatting with your kids, or answering emails or resupplying your household with dog food, that might be an indicator your work environment is toxic and you might want to keep looking out for better offers.

Also when game dev teams are crunched, their productivity drops below 50%. When they're crunched for more than two weeks, it drops below 10%. So don't crunch your devs.

[–] roofuskit@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I won't even connect to a wireless network at work with my phone without VPNing to my home network to browse. People use their work computers to browse for personal reasons? They are all.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (22 children)

What about private browsing or running a Firefox portable exe?

[–] t0fr@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean it's not blocked, but if you're connected to their network, they can still see your traffic if they wanted to.

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[–] perviouslyiner@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Tor browser bundle" is the version of Firefox that doesn't reveal browsing data to the local network.

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[–] BitSound@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

You can use Tor and your IT won't be able to see what you're browsing. They will be able to see that you're using Tor, and might get grumpy about that, though.

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