cyberslacker

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cyberslacker

An employee who uses the office computer for personal enjoyment. Since it is so easy to flip between a business application and an entertainment, social or shopping page on the Web, many employees do it routinely if their computers are not locked down. Company firewalls can be configured to prevent access to popular websites, such as YouTube, Facebook and Amazon; however, there are millions of other sites, which makes this approach only partially effective. See lock down.

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Now that the economic recession challenges every company, there is no place for cyberslackers and low-skilled stuff.

Software to Monitor Employees' Activities

A study by Ugrin, Pearson and Odom (2007) found that executives and younger individuals had the highest propensity to be cyberslackers while gender, culture, years of service, and pay status were not significantly related to this behavior.

Using computer resources for personal activities at work: employee perceptions of acceptable behavior

Cyberloafers and cyberslackers are becoming such a big enough problem in the corporate world that many companies are beginning to crack down.