Is this why your internet connection seems so slow?

An article in the Wall Street Journal today quotes a small business owner saying he found "that 70% of the workers in its 125-person headquarters watched videos on Web sites like Google Inc.'s YouTube and News Corp.'s MySpace for about an hour a day".

Folks, 70% of 125 employees is just over 87 man-hours a day - the equivalent of having almost 11 people on payroll who do no work at all. Think about that.

Now the funny part is that the Wall Street Journal has prominent links to videos on its home page. But the point is, you're just supposed to watch them after business hours. Yes, your employees will want to check local and national newspaper sites, or CNN and Fox, during the day. But as the article points out, the problem is "Online video files on average are about seven times as large as audio files, and 100 times as large as email" (my bold).

We can work with your company to evaluate your current bandwidth usage, and then to make recommendations on how to turn your internet connection back into a business tool. Call us and see for yourself.