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Productivity, Internet Abuse, and How to Improve One by Eliminating the Other

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Overview This white paper does not focus on Internet highlights, but on some of the considerable downsides--and how to eliminate them. Specifically, it explains the effect of Internet abuse on employee productivity, which is huge and not fully appreciated. It then examines the best strategies and technologies to combat abuse so that organizations can enhance the Internet as a tool and remove its potential as a productivity curse.

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Publisher	Bloxx	File Format	PDF
Date Published	September 2008
Format	White Papers
Topics	Security Management, Security Tools, Web Filtering, Spyware

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