title: Lost sleep and cyberloafing: Evidence from the laboratory and a daylight saving time quasi-experiment.
abstract: 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 behavior at the national level. We first tested the DST-cyberloafing relation through a national quasi-experiment, then directly tested the relation between sleep and cyberloafing in a closely controlled laboratory setting. We discuss the implications of our findings for theory, practice, and future research.
authors.affiliation: Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources Area, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University, Singapore. davidtwagner@gmail.com
authors.forename: David T
authors.initials: DT
authors.lastname: Wagner
authors.forename: Christopher M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Barnes
authors.forename: Vivien K G
authors.initials: VK
authors.lastname: Lim
authors.forename: D Lance
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Ferris
mesh_terms: D004526:Efficiency; D004532:Ego; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012892:Sleep Deprivation; D012927:Social Control, Informal; D013997:Time Factors; D017132:Workplace; D055815:Young Adult