Cyberloafinghas become a significant issue for companies today. Cyberloafing costscompanies millions of dollars each year. As a result, some companieshave chosen to use various technologies to either prevent or catchemployees that are spending their time online or on their phones doingnon-work-related activities such as shopping, playing games, orsocializing. Do some research on cyberloafing. What are the costs tocompanies? How much time do employees spend doing non-work-relatedactivities? What are some of the tools employers are using? What are thelaws in your state related to the use of these tools? Do you think theuse of these tools is ethical? Why or why not?

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Posted 1

Hello Class!

Cyberloafinghas been going on since the internet and smart phones have beenprevalent. This is something I have always witnessed but never knewthere was a name for it. It is hard these days to find someone that isnot glued to their phone. I used to be this way too. My job in themilitary broke me from this habit. We worked in secure building whereyou could not bring a phone or any Bluetooth enabled device inside.Working 13 hour shifts like that broke my habit for device dependency. Istill see this everywhere there. No matter where you go, you see peopleon their phones at work or there phone is still on them in their pocketor something similar. Cyberloafing can create a social or economic losswhen it is conducted outside of organizational goals. However,according to Journal of Eurasia Social sciences. Cyberloafing can leadto the development of creativity within the workplace. This is if theindividual is using the internet and leisure activities to help promotepositive thinking and ideas within the workplace. For example someoneworking in sales can use the internet to post about sales in the storeor encourage friends to come shop. These messages are still persona butwork towards to goal of the company. Cyber loafing can cause a loss totrue work time though. Employees can use it to avoid work by watchingstreaming services when they should be doing projects. This can causeorganizations money by prolonging projects which in turn needs moremoney and resources to complete them. It also pays an employee toperform leisurely activities.

Cyberloafingcan be significant or insignificant. Either way it can be monitoredwith tools such as Desk Time. The only downfall to these tools is thatis limited to the computers on the network. It does not extend topersonal smartphone devices. Organizations would have institute a nocell phone or limited cell phone policy to diminish phone cyberloafing.

Posted 2

The costs to cyberloafing come in two forms. The first is in the obvious

lack of productivity. The second is in additional exposure to viruses

and other malware. According to a learnstuff.com graphic, workers are

interrupted by messages and notifications every 10.5 minutes. Employers

are using tools like teramind to monitor employee behavior at their

computer. The only restriction placed in New York is to not record

audio, but few places go that far. The use of these tools makes sense,

as employers have a right to measure who is making the most of their

time. However, employers should not be overzealous as an over reliance

on stat tracking and employee monitoring can make an employee feel

suffocated. In fact, I would argue that the freedom to handle personal

tasks during slow work periods is a factor in some people’s choice of

employer.

Posted 3

Cyberloafing is a term that I have never heard of before. Once Ilooked it up is when i got the full just of what it is. It actually costcompanies quite a bit of money. It can cost employers $4,500 per year,per employee, and most employees spend about 56% of there time onlinedoing non-work related activities. Some companies use website blockersand use employer productivity programs. The only downfall is that only48% of companies use those features, so there are a lot of companieslosing money everyday.

In my state there is no law against companies using programs to tomonitor or keep their employees working. I do believe that using thesedifferent programs and software, are ethical. If your paying someone todo a job then you should be getting work from them except on breaks orlunch. I know if i were paying my employees to do a job then I want themost out of my money, so I completely agree with using software orprograms to keep them working.