The term cyberslacking and an alternative form, cyberloafing, emerged during the late nineties among a proliferation of words created by productive use of the prefix cyber- to describe things relating to computers or the Internet, e.g. cybercafé, cyberspace. The verbs slack and loaf both mean ‘to spend time avoiding work’. The term cyberslacker, acknowledged in August 2003 by editors of the Oxford English Dictionary, and its alternative form, cyberloafer, are used to describe employees who engage in the practice. Cyberslacking can also be used as a participle adjective, e.g. cyberslacking employees, and there is some evidence for use of cyberslack and cyberloaf as intransitive verbs.