If you're reading this in the office, you may be cyberloafing, as it's the term for employees who surf the Internet when they should be working.
It's not an especially new word (it dates from the end of the heyday of the cyber- word-creation boom, about 1996) but it has become newsworthy recently following the publication of a paper by Vivien K G Lim of the National University of Singapore in the Journal of Organizational Behavior.
She surveyed a selection of self-identified cyberloafers and found they often did so not out of boredom or laziness but as an act of defiance against what they saw as unjust actions by their employers. so a conscious attempt to balance the ledger.
The root of the term is the colloquial English noun loafer, someone who spends time idly. This is known from about 1830, originally in the US, but its origin is unknown; it might just possibly come from an old German word for a tramp, Landläufer.
please proceed.... and good luck..
happy cyberloafing !!!
 | shadow8 wrote on Sep 25, '04, edited on Apr 19, '06 |
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