Commenting on technology advancement, SMU Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management David T. Wagner said: “It’s unquestioned that technology has come to play an integral role in our lives." “There are advantages to that,” he continued, but the ubiquity of technology also has its downsides. The same devices that empower good work also multiply the opportunities to slack off, and in more insidious, less obvious ways. Where once taking a break meant physically removing oneself from instruments of labour — hammer and nails, a sewing machine — now a diversion can be as simple as the click of a mouse, with little outward sign that an employee is not engrossed in work.