Harris Interactive conducted a poll on employee’s online video habits at work. While workers are consuming your standard news clips and viral videos, the poll found that 3% of people are watching porn at work.
That statistic begs a few questions. Who is this wild minority? Why are they indulging in behavior like this? Perhaps most interestingly – how do they get away with it?
To be clear, watching porn at work shows tremendously bad judgment, and anyone who does it should probably be fired.
That said, we suppose the following methods are how people get away with it.
Mask your IP address
Use a free proxy service like this one to conceal your identity and location as you browse around. It redistributes your porn traffic around the Internet so that it can’t be traced back to you.
Use alt-tab to switch back and forth between programs quickly.
The alt-tab shortcut in Windows and command-tab shortcut in OS X lets you switch between whatever programs you’re using very quickly and seamlessly. Use it to bury your dirty stuff.
Use a smaller screen, like an iPhone.
The more discreet you can be, the better. Why not keep your business on a smaller screen that’s easier to hide?
Get a monitor cover that blocks the view.
A privacy screen is designed so that people walking by or looking at your screen at an angle will be unable to see anything. Only if you are sitting directly in front of it is your view unaffected.
