The use of the Internet as a critical component of business activities has led to increasing interest in the impact of employee cyberloafing. While much of the extant research has focused on the negative effects of cyberloafing, we advance the literature by examining how and when cyberloafing may facilitate employee creative performance. In taking a knowledge-based perspective, we specifically focus on browsing-related cyberloafing and propose that it can enhance creative performance due to its positive relationship with knowledge acquisition. We also hypothesize that job demands serves as a key boundary condition to this pathway such that when job demands is lower (rather than higher), the positive relationship between browsing-related cyberloafing and creative performance via knowledge acquisition is strengthened. Our results using multi-level path analysis from a two-wave field study involving 203 employees and their 35 direct supervisors provide support for our hypothesized relationships. We discuss the implications to the cyberloafing literature and the managerial practice.