Service to Help Companies Keep Workers on Task, Off the Web

Two Orange County firms have teamed up to help the corporate world deal with the growing number of workers surfing the Internet--checking stock prices, shopping, even gambling online--when they should be working.

As part of the arrangement, Strategic HR Services, a Newport Beach firm that offers human resource consulting and services to companies, will incorporate technology provided by Log-On Data Corp., an Internet filtering company based in Orange. Log-On Data has created X-Stop, which restricts employee access to Internet content.

In addition to wasting time, workers that send personal e-mails or call up Web sites with pornography can trigger lawsuits alleging sexual harassment or a hostile work environment, said Kelly Rodnon, marketing manager of Log-On Data.

Log-On will provide Strategic HR’s consulting services as well as its products, which include record-keeping tools and payroll systems.

Terms of the partnership are being finalized.