Playboy.com suspends 35 after Internet usage probe
Posted by Matthew on Wednesday October 30, 2002 @01:03AM
from the what-goes-around-comes-around dept.
Matthew writes: Playboy.com, the web portal associated with the famous men’s magazine, suspended 35 staffers after firewall monitoring and network scanning revealed that the employees had residual pornographic photos in their browser caches.
Joining the roughly 30% of U.S. companies that have formally disciplined employees for innappropriate Internet use related to pornography, Playboy.com announced its zero tolerance policy for porn surfing.
“Surfing for pornography creates an atmosphere of intimidation and harrassment for employees, many of whom may be reluctant to actually say anything about it.” said company chairwoman Christine Heffner.
“The problem came to our attention when some of the models complained of male staffers learing at them during photo shoots. We installed scanning software on the network, and found that some staffers indeed had pornographic material on their computers.”
“We’ve taken the steps required to make Playboy.com a safe, comfortable environment for everyone to work at.”