Name: Course: UNV 104
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The Transitioning Workplace
Today the internet is always virtually at a person’s fingertips and constantly advancing shifting society socially, culturally, and economically. Internet in the workplace has become the next step in a trend of naturalized technology advancement much like the car, television, and cell phones (International Journal of Management & Marketing Research, 2013). Adjustments to how business is conducted are largely contributed to how much and how the internet is utilized in the workplace. With the internet becoming more commonplace in the workforce it has brought about several advantages, disadvantages, and policy measurements.
The advantages are documented and clear to how the internet adds to the memory capabilities, communication, and size and speed of the workplace. Internet helps commercial activities move more effectively. Information becomes more accessible for the decision making process and produces results in a timelier manner using virtual networks, databases, and web pages. Emphasized is the flexibility and convenience of wider coverage using internet. Advances contributed to the internet are communications capabilities such as email, file sharing, creating websites, and e-commerce (Obiri-Yeboah, Owusu-Ansah, & Odei-Lartey, 2013). Emails, Video Conferences, and Chat rooms let a large number of personnel receive the same data in different locations and have a recorded stream of communication, increasing memory capabilities through added storage space, traceability, and logs.
Next dis-advantages are not as clearly noted but can be quite drastic when it comes to the social interaction, dependency, and personnel issues that may arise. Integration of technological advances makes face to face interaction less necessary, as larger portions of information are conveyed to larger groups