"I am What I ought to Be": Women Cyberslacking in Ethiopian Public University.
Today, the Gen 'Y' (born during 1981-1995) is the world's largest workforce; and they are employed at digitized workplaces. Cyberslacking (personal use of the internet at the workplace) is the new normal for the recently emerged Ethiopian digital workplace and workforce. Globally, enough cyberslacki...
| Published in: | Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities Vol. 29; no. 4; pp. 2207 - 2225 |
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Universiti Putra Malaysia
Dec2021
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