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An Empirical Assessment Of Employee Cyberslacking In The Public Sector: The Social Engineering Threat, Wilnelia Hernández, Yair Levy, Michelle M. Ramim
An Empirical Assessment Of Employee Cyberslacking In The Public Sector: The Social Engineering Threat, Wilnelia Hernández, Yair Levy, Michelle M. Ramim
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Employees spend time during work hours on non – work related activities including visiting e - commerce Websites, managing personal email accounts, and engaging in e - banking. These types of actions in the workplace are known as cyber slacking. Cyber slacking affects employees’ productivity, presents legal concerns, and undermines the security of the employer’s network. This research study addressed the problem of cyber slacking in the public sector, by assessing the ethical severity of cyber slacking activities, as well as how employees perceived that the frequency of such activities occurred by their co - workers. Participants from public sector …