said by Michieru2 :

It's not just to make it easy to setup and run without having to be some firewall wizz, it's also about bypassing access.

said by TKJunkMail :

And if you are running a business, you don't want your employees bypassing firewalls, for security reasons, and other reasons too. Later, we will read where Skype wonders why the business world shuns their product. Well, this is why - encouraging users to bypass legitimate firewalls.

said by karlmarx :

"It's their phone system and if they choose to monitor you, tough nuts"

And people wonder why everyone hates the megacorps. It's because of attitudes like that, attitudes that treat employees as disposable workers. That's the major problem of all the neo-con capitalists. They've all lost their humanity. I work for a smaller company, that DOESN'T monitor it's employees. We can shop, do banking, etc, all in work time. What matters to the company is that WE DO OUR JOBS. We are measured based on results, not on if there's a warm body sitting at a desk. I allow my staff absolute freedom to do what they want to do. All I ask is that they complete their tasks in a timely manner.

said by matrix3D :

That leads me to believe your company monitors its employees phone calls, which may or may not be legal. I mean look at the list of stuff you say they "allow" and stuff they don't. Porn and P2P is a quite obvious no-no at work, but MySpace? IM? All the stuff that's easy to monitor they allow.