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Abstract
Cyberloafing refers to the act of employees using their company's Internet access for personal purposes during work hours. This field study tested the effectiveness of an intervention to increase employees' awareness of others' cyberloafing on four dimensions: the (a) frequency (b) seriousness of information-seeking activities, and (c) frequency (d) seriousness of deviant cyberloafing activities. Data were collected from 102 employees in a private company. Participants were randomly assigned to either a control group (n = 62) who received no intervention and took a survey, or an experimental group (n = 40) that received the intervention and then took a survey. The intervention consisted of a powerpoint presentation with information on the company's Internet policy. The intervention was designed to affect participants' perceived informational justice, however there were no significant differences between the control group and the experimental group. Regression analyses found that perceived informational justice significantly predicted the seriousness of others' information-seeking cyberloafing behavior.
