Antecedents for Cyberloafing – A Literature Review

Abstract

The private use of the Internet via desktop and smartphones duringworking time, also known as cyberloafing, has become a common practice atmany workplaces. While critical voices expect performance losses through suchbehavior, their opponents perceive of the interruptions created by cyberloafing asan opportunity to recover and continue working with increased productivityafterwards. Given the growing body of research on Internet-related employees’opportunism, this paper presents a systematic literature review of 69 studies toidentify the factors behind cyberloafing. The classification includes personalitytraits as well as antecedents related to the job, organization and personal life. Thepaper concludes with a clear picture of the kind of circumstances which tend toincrease cyberloafing and which factors statistically do not seem to have anyimpact on the abuse of Internet during working time.

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