IT managers want World Cup ban
More than half (54 percent) of IT managers believe employees should be banned from watching the World Cup using their PC at work, says Blue Coat Systems.
Research by the network management firm revealed that 69 percent of IT managers were convinced their office staff would be determined to watch the England matches during the tournament.
This could lead companies to find their corporate bandwidth fully occupied by video streaming, slowing down networks and potentially causing them to crash. Furthermore nearly two thirds (65 percent) of UK firms have no policies in place to prevent office networks being used to stream live broadcasts, such as football matches. And 64 percent said they had no rules to govern the use of social networks including Facebook and Twitter during office hours.
