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Re:Lawsuit: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer led illegal purge of mal... by Nadya on Friday October 07, 2016 @04:19PM (#12663630)
>And even still, who cares?! Do you actually have a good handle on how many of your employees just read HN or Reddit for half a day? Unaccounted for smoke breaks? Having to make personal calls while on the clock?

Don't need a handle on it if you block access to them.

But my work found that blocking Reddit/Facebook actually made less work get done: people couldn't spend 5-10 minutes to unwind and then plug back in and work. That policy lasted a single week.

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