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Next Monday companies can expect workers to be a lot less productive.
And it has everything to do with Daylight Saving Time, according to research published in the Journal of Applied Psychology.
Based on six years of Google data, researchers from Penn State, Virginia Tech, Singapore University and the National University of Singapore found that web searches related to entertainment rise sharply the Monday after the shift to Daylight Saving Time when compared to any other Monday.
The average worker will lose 40 minutes of sleep the Sunday of Daylight Savings, which makes them "less likely to self-regulate their behavior" and more prone to "'cyberloafing, or surfing the Internet for personal pursuits while on the clock."
The researchers also conducted a lab experiment where they monitored subjects' sleep the night before they were required to watch a boring lecture online, and found that subjects on average engaged in 8.4 minutes more of cyberloafing for every hour of interrupted sleep the night before.
The researchers went so far as to say that "global productivity losses from a spike in employee cyberloafing are potentially staggering" and recommend that policymakers rethink the costs and benefits of the time change policy.
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