Blogging at Office – Legal or Not
December 11, 2008First time i know about blog is from s small community of my friends whose like to buy a domain and have a website. And they are deciding to make a blog. So we start blogging at office. We blog at work hour but we still doing our main job and doing blogging and blogwalking when we have free time at our work hour.
Times goes around. Some of my friends now do blogging to make some money from it, from place an ads at their blog, do some review from review broker, etc. Rest of my friends still blogging for fun, do whatever he likes with his blog and make some community or just share some information and knowledge.
After a year of blogging, i concern about, “is my office is legal for blogging?” I mean not just blogging, it is also for playing games at work hours. It is legal or not ?
In my opinion, office hours should do activity related with your works, even they allowed us to surf the net, but i think the allowed us for that not for our personal use. But i think some office not too stritched about that, i mean they allowed us to do anything at least or main job is done, or not continuity to do personal activity like blogging, playing games, chatting, etc.
Otherwise, PC and internet connection was provide by our office, i feel so guilty when i do blogging or blogwalking use office hour and equipment. But i can’t hold my desire to write and visiting other bloggers blog.
Alhamdulillah now at home already had unlimited internet connection, but i must share my time at home between blogging activity and family. And i feel not guilty even i do blogging sometimes for money 
So if you have other vision about this topic, please feel free to give suggestion or discuss this with another blogger whose visit this page. 
42 Responses to “Blogging at Office – Legal or Not”
By Dhimas on Dec 11, 2008 | Reply
Tergantung boss bilang gimana mas.. Kalo bilang internet adalah fasilitas kantor, boleh dugunakan untuk refreshing dikala senggang ya legal.. kalau ada bau curi-curi ya ga legal..
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By ryan on Dec 12, 2008 | Reply
Tergantung konteks kerjaanya juga mas, misal kerjaanya yang menuntut untuk selalu update berita teknologi maka ngeblog bisa berarti kerja juga misal bagian R n D dan yang ditulis di blog pengalaman pribadi dengan riset2x nya.
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By abee on Dec 12, 2008 | Reply
curi-curi kesempatan…
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By Eko Priyanto on Dec 12, 2008 | Reply
Legal atau Ilegalnya ngeblog di kantor sih tergantung sama pribadi masing-masih, bener kata ryan kalau memang kerjaanya berhubungan dengan internet ya itu wajar2 saja, yang jelas pasti ada yang namanya kurupsi waktu jam kerja
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By kucingkeren on Dec 12, 2008 | Reply
hmm.. if u can not control ur desire to blogwalking while u should work at that time , of course is ilegal. Good for u, finally u have the good facility at home. Honestly, i dont agree to do blogging at office hours. Firstly, u can not maximaze ur job while u doing else. But… (again) but, if u stuck with ur job, where.what will u do to release it, meanwhile u must do (like or not) finishing ur job. For me, blogging is the best way to get my mood better… cheers…
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By elreso on Dec 14, 2008 | Reply
Bagaimanapun itu tergantung dengan aturan yang berlaku di tempat kerja. Kalau sama atasan boleh berarti ya gpp selama gak ganggu pekerjaan (biasanya ada embel2 syarat itu
).
Yang menurutku perlu diperhatikan adalah kapan waktunya ngeblog/blogwalking/blog commenting/internet/gaming dan kapan bekerja.
bayangin aja 5 vs 1 khan diatas itu. Bisa2 kerja cuman 1 jam yg optimalnya
Jadi itu harus dipisahkan meskipun diperbolehkan di kantor.
Dipisahkan itu bukan berarti windownya dipisahkan (buka window banyak tapi hanya 1 yg buat kerja, many others for the fun part, or private part).
Harapan sebenernya bos2 itu khan kasih kebebasan itu biar tidak jenuh bekerja, dan bisa riset dan belajar dari internet yg berhubungan dengan pekerjaan
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By casual cutie on Dec 15, 2008 | Reply
yg penting ga ketauan bos..
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By isnan on Dec 16, 2008 | Reply
kalau boleh, apa kita bakal trus-trusan nge blog atau maen game sampe seharian?
kalau gak boleh, apa kita terus berhenti ngeblog, atau berkarya, atau berkomunitas? atau berhenti bermain sama sekali?
apa yg cocok buat orang belum tentu cocok buat kita dan juga sebaliknya.
start listening to your heart.
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By nia on Dec 16, 2008 | Reply
hem, thx for visit mine. keep in touch
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By Ly on Dec 16, 2008 | Reply
uehuheuue….sama saja dengan sayah
mencari kesempatan dalam kesempitan u/ ngeblog n’ blogwalking kayak gini ini nech hueuhe
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By reza on Dec 17, 2008 | Reply
qwq blogging di kantor , kalau blogging disekolah gimana ya
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By 'Nin on Dec 18, 2008 | Reply
Kalau legalnya mungkin legal… cuman etis apa engga ya?
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By dhilamdr on Dec 19, 2008 | Reply
i think thats big OK!!blogwalking is nice activity.we can get ‘something’ from that isn’t it?
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By irwan on Dec 19, 2008 | Reply
It’s absolutly legal mate…, The important is our work done in correct time…, Keep blogging anyway…
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By wennyaulia on Dec 23, 2008 | Reply
once for while keknya gpp deh…
hehehe
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By Edi Psw on Dec 23, 2008 | Reply
Kalau saya memang setiap hari blogging di tempat kerja, karena kebetulan pekerjaan saya adalah mengajar blog di sekolah.
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By atrix on Dec 26, 2008 | Reply
Hmm, sebenarnya bloggin dari kantor itu sebaiknya pas istirahat makan siang dan jelang pulang kantor. Utmost thing u must finish jobdesk first.
Dan satu lagi admin kantor akan me routing dan dan filter trafik internet di jaringan kantor lho, jadi hati2 dengan apa yang kita “tulis” saat blogging dari kantor.
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By Trent on Dec 26, 2008 | Reply
Merry Christmas!
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By Brillie on Dec 26, 2008 | Reply
Out Of Topic: I just want to say… HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009!!!
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By Blank_ on Dec 31, 2008 | Reply
i just want to say : walah gak iso boso londo aku..!
, kok gak di sortir koment-e…
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By Ps3 on Jan 3, 2009 | Reply
You should be fine doing it at work! Only documents created at work belong to them legally
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By Ernährungstipps on Feb 3, 2009 | Reply
Blogging per se is not bad, it’s the time spent during office hours that makes it illegal. But if your “boss” allowed such a thing, then why bother ask if legal or not. The most important thing is you ask permission first before resorting to blogging.
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By Rima on Feb 4, 2009 | Reply
Depends on how you see it kali. Lebih ke moral aja ya mas. Baca postingan mas juga seperti bercermin lagi apa yang aku lakukan. Aku juga nge-blog di kantor tapi selalu habis jam sekolah (kan aku kerja di sekolahan…
)
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By Harvey on Feb 5, 2009 | Reply
I don’t see it as ilegal and it depends on how you see it!
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By Austin Graffiti on Feb 6, 2009 | Reply
Blogging is certainly legal, but it doesn’t mean they can’t fire you for it. If you’re not working, then you will probably get in trouble. I only blog during my lunch hour.
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By poison_ivy on Feb 12, 2009 | Reply
It depends on how understanding your boss is. Sometimes, my workload allows me to slack off a little at work so I’m able to do a bit of blogging during office hours but I don’t do it all the time.
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By Lyla on Feb 23, 2009 | Reply
boleh2 aja asal gak mengganggu kerjaan kantor… hehe… apakabar mbak… lama gak pernah mampir neh…
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By бумажный on Mar 3, 2009 | Reply
Интересно стало, а комментарии которые не нравятся автору здесь удаляют?
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By ремонтник on Mar 3, 2009 | Reply
Очень красиво, работа собственная?
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By Tony Lee on Mar 15, 2009 | Reply
Blogging or visiting websites outside the subject of your job should be up to the boss or company you work for. Some companies don’t mind it, and some will even block activity to certain sites.
I guess it just matters if it’s authorized by the company you work for. If it doesn’t interfere with your work performance, I guess it’s ok.
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By Anonymous on Mar 16, 2009 | Reply
It’s always legal if the boss doesn’t know.
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By uwiuw on Apr 9, 2009 | Reply
o, bloddy yes…i think you’re on the right track to become a professional blogger (a position that i personally love to have )
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By Apariaoremi on May 14, 2009 | Reply
Почему на блоге так мало тем про кризис, Вас этот вопрос не волнует?
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By Internet Marketing Site on May 23, 2009 | Reply
I think that it’s ok to blogging on a work hours , as long as you achieved your target for that day.
I am from Indonesia either.
You have a nice blog.
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By Dendy Young on May 26, 2009 | Reply
sah2 aja asal kagak ketahuan
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By viteksaranidas on Jun 30, 2009 | Reply
Это далеко не бигмак ) Но тоже прикольно. Скоро выпускной и душа поёт )
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