Here's something to make you feel better about yourself.

A new study just released by the University of Melbourne found that workers who use the internet for “personal reasons” while at work are 9 percent more productive than their more disciplined counterparts.

The study even coins a new phrase for using the internet at work for personal gain: Workplace Internet Leisure Browsing, or WILB. They estimate that roughly 70 percent of employees engage in some form of WILB during the workday.

“Firms spend millions on software to block their employees from watching videos, using social networking sites or shopping online under the pretense that it costs millions in lost productivity,” the study’s author says. “That’s not always the case.”

The benefits of WILB? It helps the mind reboot, according to the report, and helps employees focus better when they return to their assigned duties.

The bad news? These results are only applicable to those employees that spend less than 20 percent of their time at work engaged in WILB. Oops. Sorry.

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