Viewed that way, a little cyberloafing may actually be a productivity win.

Turns out company efforts to keep employees from cyberloafing may actually reduce productivity.

A little cyberloafing amounts to blowing off steam.

Chen and Lim urged companies to find some kind of middle ground to allow cyberloafing but to discourage personal e-mailing.

Cyberloafing is the use of an organisation's facilities and misuse of work time through accessing non-work related websites.

Alternate views on 'cyberloafing'

That's especially true when you waste time by cyberloafing: A recent study demonstrated that one of the best things to do following an intense bout of work is to surf the web.

They are presenting their findings, "Impact of Cyberloafing on Psychological Engagement," in San Antonio at the Academy of Management's annual meeting, which concludes Tuesday.

A study by the National University of Singapore entitled Impact of Cyberloafing on Psychological Engagement concluded that using the internet for personal use served the same purpose as a coffee break and helped workers concentrate and stay engaged.

Lim, an associate business professor at National University of Singapore, and graduate student Chen presented that finding from their study, "Impact of Cyberloafing on Psychological Engagement," at the Academy of Management's annual meeting last week in San Antonio.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Don J.Q. Chen and Vivien K.G Lim of the National University of Singapore released a study called "Impact of Cyberloafing on Psychological Engagement" last week at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management.

Australian Personal Computing magazine recently published an article on a topic known as 'cyberbludging' - the practice of using business computers for personal use.

The veterans tried goldbricking to get out of field exercises.

Some estimate goldbricking costs employers $1 billion a year in computer resources.

Meeting family needs or pleading hardship is seen as goldbricking.

Goldbricking never got anyone beaten half to death, though there were times she was tempted to change that.

Paul, you lazy loafer, quit goldbricking and give me a hand!

Goldbricking, is the avoidance of work or engaging in personal activities while at work.

You think this is simple goldbricking, then?

This, we found later, is a serious tactical blunder and a discredit to the ethics of goldbricking.

From what our prisoners have told us the crew of the station is a bunch of goldbricking misfits.

Instances of goldbricking have increased markedly since broadband Internet connections became commonplace in workplaces.

Newman ought to be doing a slow burn and goldbricking all he dares, and he isn't.

Grinning, Sebastian waited for Zaria to chew the three out for goldbricking.

The previous spring circumstances and Thigpen's own goldbricking had allowed her to keep him on the fringes of the investigation of the murdered girl.

Goldbricking, also known in computer-related tasks as cyberslacking or cyberloafing, generally refers to an employee doing less work than they theoretically could.

Sid borrowed tools and stripped the mink upholstery; I signed autographs for goldbricking Teamsters.

But all "soft, safe" jobs are filled by civilians; that goldbricking private climbs into his capsule certain that everybody, from general to private, is doing it with him.

Not until she and Pete had transferred him to the tilt table and he had stood upright on it for almost half an "You've goldbricking, haven't you, naugh?"

But alarm bells should be ringing on Capitol Hill, where industry lobbying, legislative goldbricking and Republican aversion to regulations have bottled up much-needed laws on digital communications.

In the daytime he speaks his brisk business German, to which vestiges of military jargon lend pithiness and time-saving succinctness: "Let's cut the goldbricking, let's wade in!"

We made the rounds here together, went to Charlotte together, made goo-goo eyes at the same waitress in Fayetteville, and swapped valuable trade secrets in goldbricking [shirking assigned work].

While he and Major West repeatedly clashed over his goldbricking or because of some villainy he had perpetrated, the Robot was usually the preferred victim of his barbed and acerbic wit.

Goldbricking became a mainstream topic when Yahoo! announced in late February of 2013 that it was banning the practice of telecommuting because it discovered its remote employees were not logging into the corporate VPN often enough.

IN "Distant Fires," a play about pettiness and backstabbing among the hard-hatted, a construction crew not only does its work but also indulges in goldbricking on the roof of a 10-story building, mid-summer, in Ocean City, Md.

In the Beetle Bailey comic strip, Pvt. Beetle Bailey is occasionally shown on KP for his frequent acts of blundering and goldbricking - and condemned to peel mountains of potatoes one at a time.