Abstract “Cyberslacking” is a term that describes employees' use of the internet while at work for their own private, non-business purposes. Typical cyberslacking activities are game playing and gambling, job hunting, watching live shows and streaming media, stock trading online, sending personal e-mails, perusing pornography, shopping, and recreational surfing of news, sports, and weather. Those activities use company resources, diminish productivity, and incur legal liability. In particular, some employers have been held liable in sexual-harassment cases for employees' internet-based actions. On the other hand, employers who took vigorous action to remedy and prevent employees' misuse of the internet were often able to win court cases. Thus, the wise course is to establish an internet-management policy, in addition to installing internet-filtering applications.
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Juline E. Mills (2001) studied this question.