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Does electronic monitoring of employee internet usage work?

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Using a controlled setting to study the effects of monitoring.

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            cover image Communications of the ACM
            Communications of the ACM  Volume 45, Issue 1
            Internet abuse in the workplace and Game engines in scientific research
            January 2002
            116 pages
            ISSN:0001-0782
            EISSN:1557-7317
            DOI:10.1145/502269
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