The continuous invasion of digital tools in the workplace either by the individual or the organization has prompted cyerloafing. However, with present human addiction to digital tools such as smart phones, computers and its accessories, should cyberloafing be encouraged in the workplace, bearing in mind our do-without nature as regards the use of mobile phones, computers and other gadgets in today's workplace?
I find it difficult to give a general answer to a question that concerns so many different professions. For a researcher or an advertising executive, the question of encouragement does not even arise: cyberloafing is part of their job. For workers whose work rhythm is strongly prescribed through the use of information and communication technologies (logistics, construction of consumer goods), the question does not even arise: surrounded by screens, it is not possible for them to divert them from their use to cyberloafing. We could certainly engage in a gamification of their activity, with the aim of making the digital slavery to which they are subjected lighter. I think that this is playing with fire (which would not be so bad), but above all with the health of the workers.
On the basis of these reflections, I do not expect much good to come from an 'institutionalisation' of cyberloafing in the company: in my experience, it always results in an intensification (physical or intellectual) of the work done, rarely in a lightening of the procedure, the standard and the rhythm of work.
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