Technology plays a very strong role in my life today as I find it very interesting and entertaining. The way that it makes hard or cumbersome tasks extremely easy and quick. My father looks at the subject with a very different point of view, as he is a boss and he views it as a distraction. I found this out when I was working with him one day, I was next to him and he was on the phone. I hear him say to whoever was on the other line “I think I could do without cellphones they are just a waste of time.” I immediately thought he was wrong and technology is necessary for business. However, thinking back on it my father has been with this business for over 20 years which is a lifetime in technology progression. So I asked myself, How has technology changed the workplace as a whole? Has it brought more improvements to the work environment or has it just set it up for failure.
I never really knew how many factors come into play when I asked how tech changed the workplace, that may just go to …show more content…
The article “Has Technology Changed The Way You Do Your Job?” really tests if people think it has changed the way we work and if it was for the better. A random poll was taken from different people and asked the question, has technology made you more productive at work? 96 percent said yes they are more productive, three percent said about the same and one percent said less productive. I can see how this would vary from person to person and job to job, but out of the people asked these results seemed promising. However when the question “Has technology made your job more complex?” was asked to the same people the results took a different turn. A little more than half said that it has made their job more complex, this could be an outcome of more and more people working at home. Interestingly enough the article states that 43 percent of the people questioned work at home
I never really knew how many factors come into play when I asked how tech changed the workplace, that may just go to …show more content…
The article “Has Technology Changed The Way You Do Your Job?” really tests if people think it has changed the way we work and if it was for the better. A random poll was taken from different people and asked the question, has technology made you more productive at work? 96 percent said yes they are more productive, three percent said about the same and one percent said less productive. I can see how this would vary from person to person and job to job, but out of the people asked these results seemed promising. However when the question “Has technology made your job more complex?” was asked to the same people the results took a different turn. A little more than half said that it has made their job more complex, this could be an outcome of more and more people working at home. Interestingly enough the article states that 43 percent of the people questioned work at home