| Employees watching the World Cup could cause office chaos |
| Monday, 24 May 2010 09:22 |
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Businesses are being warned that over half of office workers are planning to watch the World Cup on their computers during the working day, according to Sky News.
A survey of 2,000 workers found that 54% planned to watch the games on their office machines, which experts warn could lead to office chaos. A worrying 58% of people hadn't considered that something might go wrong with their essential business technologies during this time. Businesses are being urged to improve their IT policies to help prevent disasters that could be triggered by the increased strain on bandwidth as staff sneakily stream the games. 25% of people didn't think it would affect the speed of applications if everyone streamed the games at work. Whilst over a third of people thought it wouldn't affect their productivity, 56% admitted they didn't know whether their organisation had any restrictions or guidelines in place to prevent them watching the matches. One method of disaster prevention is data back-up, which can be done on or offsite. An automated system will replicate the operating system, user settings, applications and data and store it securely. Should the office computers crash during the World Cup, this means you have a copy of the data and it prevents you from losing all the work. Backing-up data online can be very bandwidth hungry, which would only be slowed down if employees stream the games. If your company backs-up data online you should consider banning employees from watching the World Cup, or look at onsite data back-up which is effective, regardless of how much bandwidth is being used, but less secure because the data is still stored in your premises. |
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