Lost sleep and cyberloafing: Evidence from the laboratory and a daylight saving time quasi-experiment.
@article{Wagner2012LostSA, title={Lost sleep and cyberloafing: Evidence from the laboratory and a daylight saving time quasi-experiment.}, author={David Turley Wagner and Christopher M. Barnes and Vivien K. G. Lim and D. Lance Ferris}, journal={The Journal of applied psychology}, year={2012}, volume={97 5}, pages={ 1068-76 } }
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…
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