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thrownawaynwon Microsoft recommends WA and CA employees work from home

I don't know either. The backlash has been really amusing.

It's ranged from engineers claiming they can't work without streaming music to backend office staff saying they need YouTube to help them understand how to work Microsoft Office.

gMail is an interesting edge case, though. I keep a tab open all day long as well as do probably a lot of people. But it's not for company business so it seems like that's not a place to complain. But people are.

Seriously, to any of you CEO/CTOs tuning in out there: the next time you're lining up a RIF just block Netflix for an afternoon and tag the people that complain to IT. There's your low-hanging fruit.

thrownawaynwon Microsoft recommends WA and CA employees work from home

Not a VPN. DNS blacklist at the O/S level. Mostly as an antiviral/antiphishing defense.

Virtualbox gets around it just fine. =)

thrownawaynwon Microsoft recommends WA and CA employees work from home

I'm working for a tech firm in one of these two related areas. The idea of bringing the work computer home sounded good until IT added a number of high-bandwidth sites to the IT-mandated DNS blacklist software to keep traffic down for remote workers.

I could see things like Hulu and Pandora being less mission critical than other sites but then they blocked YouTube and, probably because google mixes domains a lot, gMail got caught in the net. People were not happy about that.