Overcoming the Downsides of Personal Internet and Cell Phone Use in the Workplace: An Exploratory Empirical Analysis

Misra, Kaustav; Stackhouse, Michael D.; Misra, Arundhati Bagchi; Berry, Gregory J.

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“…Computer-related resources were relatively scarce, and computer time was often rationed among organizational departments, with lost time perceived as serious damage. As personal internet and smartphone access has expanded, employees have been enabled to engage in cyberslacking without the use of company equipment (Misra et al, 2021), lessening the emphasis on the resource theft perspective. However, related security issues involving BYOD ("bring your own device") strategies have emerged in which employees introduced new kinds of laptops and other equipment to existing organizational systems (Palanisamy, Norman, & Kiah, 2020).…”

Section: Evolution Of Anti-cyberslacking Policing Initiativesmentioning

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The Shape of Workbreaks to Come

Oravec

2023

Journal of Organizational and End User Computing

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For employees, work involves taking breaks as well as engaging in specific required duties, and sometimes that break taking is construed as “cyberslacking” by employers. After historical treatments of cyberslacking concepts, this article analyzes ways that artificial intelligence (AI) methodologies and the “bossware” platform genre are aiding management to counter the cyberslacking phenomena directly exhibited by employees or projected from previous activities and profiles. It contrasts straightforward “policing” methods that aim toward the identification of cyberslacking instances for selective punishment through surveillance, with “predictive cyberslacking” approaches that profile certain trends and patterns in employee behavior. Such identified inclinations can be used to engage or nudge workers into specific, individualized patterns of work and approved recreational or developmental activity. A medicalization-style approach is often used in bossware to entice employees toward particular mental health-themed activities (including mindfulness and meditation activities).

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Section: Evolution Of Anti-cyberslacking Policing Initiativesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Shape of Workbreaks to Come

Oravec

2023

Journal of Organizational and End User Computing

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Overcoming the Downsides of Personal Internet and Cell Phone Use in the Workplace: An Exploratory Empirical Analysis

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The Shape of Workbreaks to Come

The Shape of Workbreaks to Come

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