Allen & Overy (A&O) has been forced into an embarrassing climb-down after the firm's IT department was bombarded with staff complaints following a firmwide ban on social networking website Facebook. IT chiefs took the decision to block access to the website due to concerns that staff downloading videos from the site would compromise the performance of A&O's IT systems.
May 25, 2007 at 11:18 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Legalweek
Allen & Overy (A&O) has been forced into an embarrassing climb-down after the firm’s IT department was bombarded with staff complaints following a firmwide ban on social networking website Facebook.
IT chiefs took the decision to block access to the website due to concerns that staff downloading videos from the site would compromise the performance of A&O’s IT systems.
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