Employers are starting to block workers from watching online video during the workday. Indeed, Web 2.0 in the workplace is starting to go the way of streaming music and adult
content sites: banned because they sap up bandwidth and employee productivity. According to the latest figures from Nielsen Online, the heaviest consumption of Web video is during lunchtime: between
12 p.m. and 2, when most people are at work. ComScore reports that in December, Internet users watched more than 10 billion videos.
For smaller companies, video consumption poses
a particularly big problem, because they often lack the bandwidth to accommodate transmitting large video files over their networks. On average, online video files are about seven times larger than
audio files, and 100 times bigger than email.
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