Abstract

The Internet is a powerful tool that has changed the way people work. However, the ubiquity of the Internet has led to a new workplace threat to productivity-cyberloafing. Building on the ego depletion model of self-regulation, we examine how lost and low-quality sleep influence employee cyberloafing behaviors and how individual differences in conscientiousness moderate these effects. We also demonstrate that the shift to Daylight Saving Time (DST) results in a dramatic increase in cyberloafing behavior at the national level. We first tested the DST-cyberloafing relation through a national quasi-experiment, then directly tested the relation between sleep and cyberloafing in a closely controlled laboratory setting. We discuss the implications of our findings for theory, practice, and future research.

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Authors

Wagner DT, Barnes CM, Lim VK, Ferris DL

Institution

Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources Area, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University, Singapore. davidtwagner@gmail.com

Source

The Journal of applied psychology 97:5 2012 Sep pg 1068-76

MeSH

Efficiency
Ego
Humans
Internet
Sleep Deprivation
Social Control, Informal
Time Factors
Workplace
Young Adult

Pub Type(s)

Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Language

eng

PubMed ID

22369272