Jordan has barred public sector workers from accessing more than 50 websites at work, after it was found they were wasting almost 3 hours a day online.
The 30-day study found that public servants visited 70 million websites at work, of which only 130,000 were relevant to their jobs.
The country's Information Minister, Marwan Juma, told BBC News that the policy would "improve services".
"We knew there was waste, but not to this extent," he said.
"These policies are not unique; when I worked in the private sector, all the companies I worked for had policies.
"It's part of our attempts to improve services and get staff to use the internet as a tool to help them with their work."
Mr Juma stressed that the blocked access would only be in place during office hours.
"This is a continuous process and we are revamping our monitoring and filtering tools with a view, perhaps, of time limited access to certain sites, rather than an outright block," he added.
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