Google’s new security pilot program will ban employee Internet access

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Google’s new security pilot program will ban employee Internet access - Beehaw

Counter point. I would wager people are more productive scrolling 5 minutes through a Facebook post then taking a 30 minute coffee break talking to various coworkers. I would hate this. Also if you’re a developer how would you research something? No stack overflow? No access to forums to solve particular problems? Not sure this is sustainable.

Losing access to language reference docs would be huge. What are they gonna do, save them all locally? Maintain copies of those sites on the company intranet, at the company's expense? What happens when the next version of Python is released?

This is a real cut the nose the spite the face move. Google would hemorrhage developers.

Can’t Google your obscure package’s runtime error? Guess you aren’t gonna do anything of value for the rest of the day.
As long as the money’s green…