Fine of £1,000 for watching the World Cup online
Watching the World Cup this summer will be difficult for people at work, but with modern technology, workers will be able to watch live matches on their computers. You may not think this is a problem, but doing this could land your company a fine of £1,000 if you break the rules, yes rules, to watch live football.
Amazingly, there are rules to watching the live matches online. To do this, you will need to have a television licence, and if your company doesn’t have a TV licence, then watching online means that the company will be breaking the law. If your company doesn’t have any televisions in the office, then they won’t have a licence for them.
However, there is a way to beat this, and that is to use your own personal laptop, because if you have a TV licence at home, you will be covered.
Rules can be quite silly, and breaking the rules in your office even goes as far as if you need to charge your laptop by using the plug, you could still get slapped with the fine.
So watching live World Cup football online via your computer could land your company a hefty fine, and that is a big price to pay just to watch a 90-minute match.
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