Should you restrict developers internet access?

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Published on 2009-04-15T22:20:48Z Indexed on 2010/04/17 8:33 UTC
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Our (small to medium-sized) company is going to start enforcing an internet policy which everyone, including the team of 4 senior developers, will be subject to.

Amongst other things, this means that developers will not be able to access:

web based e-mail (Hotmail, Yahoo, Googlemail)
instant messaging accounts (MSN Messenger)
social networking sites (Facebook)
streaming media (internet radio)

At the moment, we don't have any restrictions on our internet use, so I really want to find out what the effect on the team will be.

Please let me know your thoughts. What effect do you think this will have on the team (positive or negative).

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