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Cyberloafing at Workplaces – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 958 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 958 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to aq.pharmaveterans@gmail.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Andrea Piacquadio Credit: Jopwell Credit: Pixabay Cyberloafing Cyberloafing refers to the act of employees using their company's internet and digital resources for personal purposes during work hours. This can include activities such as browsing social media, shopping online, watching videos, or engaging in non-work-related communication. While seemingly innocuous, cyberloafing can significantly impact productivity and organizational efficiency. The issue becomes even more serious when the staff engages in watching immoral content.  Although internet technology is installed to increase organizational productivity, this is not the case in practice. Technologi...

Rise and Decline of the Titans 1 – Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #533 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #533. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. When I started using internet in 1994, the main search engines were Yahoo and Netscape Navigator. They were the best known and the most used. There were couple of other smaller options. Then Microsoft launched its Internet Explorer which has now been replaced with Microsoft Edge. Most popular email was Yahoo mail and for instant messaging, Yahoo messenger was used.  Sabeer Bhatia in India invented Hotmail which became hot quickly. Microsoft purchased Hotmail from him at a publicly declared price of 400 million US$ and released it in 1996. Bhatia later developed another em...