Cyberloafing

What is it? Why I should care.

Cyberloafing is a term used to describe the actions of employees who use their Internet access at work for personal use while pretending to do legitimate work. It is a growing problem. No company is immune.

• It has been estimated that between 60% – 80% of an employee’s time spent on the internet is spent doing something besides work (Aghaz & Sheik 2016)
• In 2014 website browsing on mobile devices eclipsed desktop browsing
• From 2014 to 2016, mobile data traffic increased by 350%

How to find out if it is a problem

MobilSense has industry-leading analytics to help you identify which employees may be using company data on their mobile devices for personal activities. No one else can give you this in-depth view. Here are just some of the steps we take in helping you assess the magnitude of the problem within your company mobile device users:

• Identify top users. In particular, those that appear repeatedly as top users
• Segment users by brackets of sustained excessive data usage
• Detect users that are likely streaming video
• Evaluate usage by work hours and night and weekend usage
• Quantify the total data cost of excessive usage

Finding out is Free

For a limited time, MobilSense Technologies is offering a free 10-point Mobile Data Usage (MDU) Assessment.

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