Mindful work and mindful technology: Redressing digital distraction in knowledge work

Jarrahi, Mohammad Hossein; Blyth, Dorothy Lee; Goray, Cami

doi:10.1016/j.digbus.2022.100051

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“…For example, neuroticism, entitlement, and stress are being taken into account when developing some anti-cyberslacking interventions (Andreassen, Torsheim, & Pallesen, 2014;Koay, Soh, & Chew, 2017). Some managerial efforts also include the promotion of employee "mindfulness" as a "personal resource" in countering cyberslacking (Chen et al, 2022;Jarrahi, Blyth, & Goray, 2022;Mishra & Tageja, 2022). These approaches are akin to the US medicalization initiatives of the 1970s and 80s, as organizations developed mental health interventions to deal with perceived employee deviance and to minimize presumed related productivity losses (Roman, 1980), efforts that have recently expanded in response to 2020 pandemic concerns (Carvalho & Grácio, 2022).…”

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The Shape of Workbreaks to Come

Oravec

2023

Journal of Organizational and End User Computing

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For employees, work involves taking breaks as well as engaging in specific required duties, and sometimes that break taking is construed as “cyberslacking” by employers. After historical treatments of cyberslacking concepts, this article analyzes ways that artificial intelligence (AI) methodologies and the “bossware” platform genre are aiding management to counter the cyberslacking phenomena directly exhibited by employees or projected from previous activities and profiles. It contrasts straightforward “policing” methods that aim toward the identification of cyberslacking instances for selective punishment through surveillance, with “predictive cyberslacking” approaches that profile certain trends and patterns in employee behavior. Such identified inclinations can be used to engage or nudge workers into specific, individualized patterns of work and approved recreational or developmental activity. A medicalization-style approach is often used in bossware to entice employees toward particular mental health-themed activities (including mindfulness and meditation activities).

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