Managerial Consultant:

The most recent conversation "around the water cooler" involved the company's new monitoring policy. A Managerial Consultant, named Geoff Mackay, advised that they install e-mail filtering software, supposedly to more accurately segment the final location for outgoing business communication. However, the consensus among my peers is that the primary reason for the implementation of these policies is to cut down on wasted labor expenditures.

Personally, I am happy that other workers will not be able to hurt our productivity any longer by wasting time. An interesting fact relayed to me by an associate in another department is that management vetoed actual click tracking software. However, this was only because the cost was too high, both in monetary expenditures and the lack of internal expertise to manage such a system.