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If you're going to implement a strong, mandatory, inconvenient policy, it would sure be a good idea to issue a memo, or an all-staff email, or post it on the intranet.

Having to have our IS guy visit each person in the whole site to explain that their computer was locked while they were in the restroom or at lunch, and it will lock itself after 15 minutes of inactivity henceforth, just stinks, for us and for the hapless IS guy. (It also lends itself to people choosing the shortest, weakest passwords they can get away with, if they have to log in several times a day.)

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I can live with the policy, though I dislike it. What pisses me off is that there was no notification. (Not even "And as of next Wednesday, if you're away from your desk for 15 minutes or more, your computer will automatically lock. Just provide your password, and all your applications will still be in the state you left them.")