The document discusses 'cyberslacking,' which refers to employees using company computers for non-work-related activities during work hours. It highlights the negative impact of this behavior on productivity, estimating significant annual losses for businesses and mentioning various statistics on internet use at work. Additionally, the document offers strategies for employers to manage cyberslacking, including creating acceptable use policies and monitoring usage.

1. Cyberslacking:
The New Water Cooler

2. Cyberslacking:
A How-to-Guide for Employees
Followed by:
Cyberslacking:
A What-to-do Guide for Employers

3. What is Cyberslacking?
Cyberslacking: Adjective
Using a company's computers and Internet connection during
working hours for activities which are not work-related.
The term cyberslacker, acknowledged in August 2003 by editors of the Oxford
English Dictionary is used to describe employees who engage in the practice.
Cyberslacking can also be used as a participle adjective, e.g. cyberslacking
employees.

4. Cyberslacking Poll
What is more important, your right to privacy or your employer's right to
ensure you are productive at work?
Should employers be allowed to monitor their employees without their
knowledge?
Is there a point at which employers should allow computer and internet use
for personal purposes or is it an all or nothing deal?

6. We've truly reached a new level of technological time
wasting, and it's called Facebook. Talk about a study in
procrastination!
- Psychology Today

7. “…it provides a way to blow off work you should be
doing, while creating the illusion that you are achieving
something.”
- Jeffery Zeldman

8. I have been working long hours but much of that is due to the
fact that so many hours have been wasted on Facebook
- Nick O’Neil

9. Facebook displaced porn (2007) and Google
(2010) for the most internet traffic on the web.

11. IShouldBeWorking.com is dedicated to slackers,
goof-offs, procrastinators, loafers, "long lunchers",
and web addicted employees worldwide.

13. "This is great! We all need more things to do to get back at the man!"
Kevin R.
Kansas City, MO

15. “Star Wars Kid” > 30,000,000 Views

16. “Star Wars Kid Drunken Jedi” > 12,000,000 Views

17. Evolution of Dance >190,501,954 Views

18. “Charlie Bit Me” >422,587,464 Views
Ranked 5th all time. #1 spot is held by Justin Bieber’s
video “Baby” with 707,994,720 views.

19. Employees who are accomplished at two
or more non-work activities at once is a
practice known as “Multishirking”

20. More Great Places to Cyberslack

21. Cyberslacking:
A What-to-do Guide for Employers

23. According to IT research firm Gartner, non-work-related PC activity
results in an estimated 40% productivity loss each year for American
businesses.
According to a recent Gallup poll, the average employee spends over
75 minutes per day using office computers for non-business related
activity.
According to a report by International Data Corp (IDC)
37% of workers say they surf the Web constantly at work.

24. In a survey conducted by America Online and Salary.com
45% of employees cited personal Internet use as their number one
distraction at work
The cost of Internet surfing during the workday to be approximately
$750 billion in lost wages
The top three States for cyberslacking are Missouri, Indiana, and
Kentucky

25. 60%
of all online purchases
are made during
working hours
Source: International Data Corp

26. 70%
of all web traffic to pornography sites occurs between 9AM and 5PM
Source: Sextracker.com
20.6 million Americans also visited an adult site from a work
computer last month an average of 8.1 times, according to Nielsen Co

27. This is not new
“I had been trying hard to keep my boss from
noticing that I was spending hours every day on the
net…
…if they had given me a real mission I would be
working here instead of surfing. The only thing I'm
paid for is to show up at work. So I don't feel too
bad about that.”
Date: Tue, 05 March 1996

28. Cyberslacking Poll
What is more important, your right to privacy or your employer's right to
ensure you are productive at work?
Should employers be allowed to monitor their employees without their
knowledge?
Is there a point at which employers should allow computer and internet use
for personal purposes or is it an all or nothing deal?

29. To block or not to block?
• Google encourages employees to spend 20% of their
time on pursuits unrelated to their specific duties.
• A 2009 Australian study of 300 workers found that
those who “waste time” on the internet for pleasure
are about 9% more productive than those who don’t,
as long as they do so less than 20% of the time.

30. What can you do about it?
Create acceptable use policies that fit your needs
Ira G. Rosenstein, partner in Orrick, Herrington, & Sutcliffe, as quoted in
Information Systems Security, states, “the Internet is a valuable tool and
therefore it is very important to craft the usage policy in such a way that it
reinforces productivity and employee morale, without becoming
unmanageable.”

31. What can you do about it?
There are solutions that can block specific types of sites like:
• Adult & Mature Content • Illegal Drugs
• Alcohol/Tobacco • Intimate Apparel/Swimsuits
• Criminal & Illegal Skills • Nudity
• Cult & Occult • Pornography
• Drugs • Sex Education
• Gambling • Violence, Hate and Racism
• Hacking and Proxy Avoidance • Weapons

32. What can you do about it?
There are tools that can help you track and
document employee computer use
One Solution Automatically Records
• Screen Snapshots
• Chat/IM Activity
• Keystrokes Typed
• Facebook/Social Networks
• Web Sites Visited
• Online Searches
• Email Sent/Received
• Programs Used ...and more

33. Free Customized Acceptable Use Policy
www.Amnet.net/bkec

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