At all places that I worked, engineers had fast computers with Internet access. This proved highly valuable, because one could look online for IC specs to use in the design, and researched highly technical published papers in the company internal archive as well as the outside database of professional societies' papers (the corp paid a lot of money for this).
Of course there's abuse. One engineer, this one holding a PhD from a prestigious school back east, was caught surfing the Web for porn and storing it on his PC. Not too smart, eh, particularly as he should know that they monitored and logged the Web sites that employees frequented. He was promptly escorted out when they discovered this.
The above proved what I always thought. That is having an advanced degree, even from a prestigious school, is not sufficient proof that one is not an idiot. I wonder how he went home to explain to his wife that he got fired.
PS. The corp did not announce how this guy got fired, but it leaked and the word got around.
PPS. I believed the story, because one time I was walking by his cubicle, and saw that he had a photo up on his screen. He closed it, but not fast enough for me to not catch it. I did not mention it to anybody, and learned of his firing after I had left the company.