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Lost Sleep and Cyberloafing: Evidence From the Laboratory and a Daylight Saving Time Quasi-Experiment

 

JANUARY 8, 2013
Being Sleepy Makes You More Inclined to Surf the Web at Work
For every hour of interrupted sleep the night before, research participants engaged in 8.4 minutes more cyberloafing—checking personal e-mails or visiting unrelated websites—during a 42-minute task, says a team led by David T. Wagner of Singapore Management University. The effect of lost sleep on cyberloafing at work is supported by data showing that on the Monday after the switch to Daylight Savings Time, Google users search for 3.1% to 6.4% more entertainment-related websites in comparison with other Mondays. Less-conscientious workers are the most prone to giving in to the cyberloafing temptation when sleep-deprived, the researchers say.
Source: Lost Sleep and Cyberloafing: Evidence From the Laboratory and a Daylight Saving Time Quasi-Experiment

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