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Nearly three quarters of UK workplaces (74%) restrict their employees' access to the Internet,

according to a recent survey by office design company Maris Interiors. 71% of offices surveyed have a filter for pornographic websites, with 52% of employees unable to access social networking sites such as Twitter or Facebook and 48% of employees unable to access their personal email.

YouTube was blocked by 30% of employers, and news websites by 27%. 9% of offices only allow access to certain specific sites, and 4% only allow staff to use the company's intranet – not even allowing search engines such as Google. 

Of those employees who have restrictions in their Internet access, 30% claim they say this makes their job more difficult – and 82% say it makes their job more boring! Only 6% of employees surveyed said that they actually think it helps with their productivity at work.

Maris Interiors Chairman Michael Howard said "It's a difficult decision about blocking websites in the workplace – by doing so you have to balance employees' productivity against their morale. At our company we restrict access to pornographic sites – hopefully this doesn't affect their morale too much!"