Categorii: Tot - relationships - productivity - distractions - global

realizată de caroline Thompson 5 ani în urmă

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Impact of technology at work scaled down

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) plays a significant role in shaping modern work environments and personal interactions. It fosters the establishment of new relationships across geographic boundaries and maintains bonds with family and friends, regardless of distance.

Impact of technology at work scaled down

The role of ICT usage on relationships

Enhances communication: Increases the frequency of individuals communication with family, friends and coworkers
Enables a person to establish new relationships even across geographical boundaries
Decrease the need for interaction
Enables communication between co workers : both quickly & easily
Usurps time in relationships: creates distractions either through working or spending time on devices instead of spending time with family and friends
Inhibits personal conversations & intimacy of conversations by removing face to face conversations
Maintains personal relationships with family and friends both close by and distant

Impact of technology at work

New and additional expectations brought about by ICT usage

Increases the expectation of continuous availabilty
Creates the expectation of higher productivity
Increases the expected response time: people will be available and respond immediately

Negative experiences of ICT

ICT usage as negative outside the work context because it
Makes people lose track of time whilst using the device
Creates a distraction from work or from the personal domain
People use ICT as an excuse to avoid direct communication
Compromises the chain of command: removes hierachy regarding communication in the work place
The use of ICT in the workplace increase pressures regarding communication & effectiveness

Dependency on ICT

Creates a general dependency
Changes the norm for availability: expected to be accesible for family & work
People become addicted to their devices; theyre afraid to go anywhere without their devices
People become dependant on their ICT devices to be able to work

Positive experiences of ICT

Supports globalisation: people can interact & work across time zones & countries
Facilitates obtaining & sharing of information - much quicker with technology
Increases competitive advantage of organisations, providing more options to communicate with customers and clients
Saves time, by removing need to travel, task can be performed quicker
Allows a person to have continuous access to work information, systems, & documents even when not at work, which creates a mobile workforce
Allows people to create a virtual office either to manage their physical offices, or to work away from the work environment
Allows employees to be more effective & productive