The Australian Taxation Office has a rather taxing problem on its hands: workers with a penchant for downloading cyberporn on the office terminals, a penchant the office is now investigating.
"I can tell you that a small number of people have been notified they will be investigated," Taxation Office spokeswoman Virginia Stanhope told News.com.Au. "There is no disciplinary action at this stage. It is material that they had on their computer. I don't know if it came in by e-mail or how it came in."
Tell it to a Melbourne tax office worker, who spoke on condition of anonymity, telling the news organization cyberporn was epidemic in the tax office. The worker compared the new revelations to a scandal that embarrassed Telstra almost three years ago, when 13 workers were fired, 12 were warned, and two quit over cyberporn-related incidents on the job.
A year ago, other Taxation Office workers were disciplined for similar incidents, when routine audits found porn on their hard drives, News.com.au said.
