As has been revealed by the company's top security professional after thorough estimates, blocking people from gaining access to unproductive websites has ended up saving the Australian publisher News Limited an estimated amount of A$5.5 Million.

Just as the Rudd Government preps its plans to implement the great firewall of Australia which would come in the form of Internet filtering, News Limited has already seen substantial success by blocking employees from gaining access to public websites that have been termed "unproductive".

Bob Hinch, News Limited's National IT Security Manager has shared that the firm has continued to maintain a balanced approach to content regulation for all internal employees.

"The estimated savings in productivity losses from blocking porn and IM sites like MSN and Yahoo is estimated at $5.5 million every year. Now, instead of four to five thousand people using IM we have one to two thousand using it", he said.

News Limited, despite blocking access to various sites, does allow employees to use Microsoft's Office Communication Server for IM. For all staff members that have a genuine requirement for the service, it is always available.