From Bob Bauer's blog: The new rules provide that computer equipment and service use by company employees, or union employees, members and officeholders, engaged in personal volunteer political activities, would not be subject to a 1 hour per week or four per month "safe habor" allowance under current rules for these uses of office facilities. The use would still be considered "occasional, isolated, or incidental" use of office facilities--therefore permissible and unlimited--so long as the use 1) did not prevent those engaged in these activities from completing their assigned work; 2) was not "coerced" by their employer; and 3) did not result in increased overhead costs to the employer.