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Internet filtering  and\/or monitoring with one of Wavecrest&#8217;s Cyfin  or CyBlock products can  help preclude or drive down costs in at  least four areas:  productivity, bandwidth, legal liability and security.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>1. Productivity <\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The  average worker admits to frittering away 2.09 hours  per 8-hour workday,  not including lunch and scheduled break-time  (America Online and  Salary.com survey, 2006).<\/li>\n<li>The average employee costs a company  $29.71 per hour (including  salary, overhead costs, benefits, payroll  taxes, etc.) &#8212;- United  States Department of Labor Bureau of Labor  Statistics &#8212; March 2010.<\/li>\n<li>Lost productivity costs the company $59.42 per day per  employee (2 hrs x $29.71).<\/li>\n<li>Average employee works 240 days per year.<\/li>\n<li>Yearly loss per employee is $14,260.80\u00a0 (240 x $59.42)<\/li>\n<li>Loss per 1000 employees is $14,260,800 per year.<\/li>\n<li>Average  cost for a Wavecrest Internet filtering or  monitoring product with a  1000-employee license is $3,500 per year  ($3.50 per user).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Conclusion<\/strong>:\u00a0 Cost of a Wavecrest license is  less than three tenths of one  percent of the cost of lost productivity. A  well-communicated Web-use  policy, coupled with an effective   monitoring product, greatly increases productivity in the workplace.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>2.\u00a0 Bandwidth <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Reliable  studies indicate that as much as 70% of a company&#8217;s  bandwidth is being  consumed by non-productive pursuits. Activities  such as online video,  audio  streaming,   downloading movies or MP3&#8217;s  are especially  damaging.\u00a0 It is quite clear that  eliminating or  significantly reducing bandwidth abuse can improve  network performance  and preclude or decelerate the need for  organizations to support increased bandwidth use.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>3.\u00a0 Legal Liability<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Web-related  legal costs typically result from employees  visiting  pornography sites.\u00a0 Many studies show this to be a serious  problem. In  fact, according to research by Nielsen Online in October  2008, one  quarter of employees who use the Internet visit porn sites  during the  workday.\u00a0 Hits to porn sites are higher during office hours  than at  any other time of day, according to M.J. McMahon, publisher of  AVN  Online magazine, which tracks the adult video industry.<\/p>\n<p>This type of activity puts the employer at serious  risk of  being sued by <em>other<\/em> workers who are offended or upset  by being  exposed to pornographic images. Such suits usually take the  form of  sexual harassment or hostile workplace litigation and can  be very  costly in terms of damage to reputation as well as legal costs.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>4.\u00a0 Security <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Studies show that approximately twenty percent of personal use  of the  Internet by employees involves activities that pose potential  threats  to employer network security. Examples include file sharing,  the use of  malicious code, spyware and more. Like bandwidth abuse, the  associated  costs are difficult to quantify, but such activities can <em>easily<\/em> result in network disruptions or slowdowns and\/or loss or compromise of  proprietary data; these all come with a cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has always been important to know that your company&#8217;s resources are being used properly and to the best of their capability.\u00a0 Businesses want to ensure that their employees are being productive and not wasting the organization&#8217;s time and resources. 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