Question

When Nathanial uses the Internet to check his personal email and sends instant messages to his friends during work hours, it is an example of Select one: a. moonlighting b. cyber loafing c. socializing d. looking busy e. daydreaming

Answer 1

Answer: Cyber loafing.

Explanation: Cyber loafing is a term used to describe the actions of employees who use their internet access to work for personal use while pretending to do legitimate work. Cyber loafing is derived from the term goldbricking, which originally referred to applying gold coating to a brick of worthless metal. Today, both goldbricking and cyber loafing (along with cyber slacking and cyber bludging) are used to refer to this phenomenon. For companies that employ cyber loafers, this behavior leads to inefficiency.