Life today has changed greatly over the past 30 years, this has effected nearly all work places today and because of this advance in technology the whole way that people do their jobs has had to change as the technology advanced, such examples are PC’s in the workplace, because of Personal Computers (PC’s) it has removed the need for filing cabinets around the office, this clears space because PC’s are able to store all of the information that would have been in the filing cabinets on their system, and have it backed up in case of any computer problems, this enables the work to be done much more efficiently and it makes it much faster to be able to look up information that may be needed if it was stored on the computer than having to search through the entire cabinet files.
ICT has also changed the ways in which many other people manage their jobs, such as mobile working, this is possible for jobs such as a sales representative, sales representatives are able to travel around the country trying to get people to buy products from the company that they’re representing, they’re able to do this because of the advances in technology that are available today, this makes it possible for the person to be able to keep in contact with work from anywhere in the country that they might be, and they don’t have to carry around many different items so that they would need to otherwise.
Some examples of this are that a sales representative would have to carry an atlas with them, so that they would be able to find their way around when they're travelling around the country, this could lead to the rep being lost on the way to the destination that they would be going to, however if they had the assistance of a GPS (Global Positioning System) or Satnav, this would allow the rep to be able to get a voice guide straight to the address that they would have input into it, enabling them to be able to get to the destination that they would want to get to, this advance in technology advances the possibility for the rep to be able to work away from his work hq.
Also because the rep would be able to keep an up to date log of all his work and sales on a laptop, it would make it very efficient for the rep to keep his work up to date, as he could put all his sales and work into database, then upload this to work from wherever he is in the country, so that when the rep gets back to his work HQ he could quickly just download the file to his computer, this would increase his work productivity, and also enable him to have all of his work on the computer and backed up which would remove the need for paper copies which is inefficient and unreliable, so the laptop would be a very big factor in being able to work on the move, as wireless/3G internet is widely available all around the county in places such as coffee shops and hotels.
Through the use of a website he could also keep a constantly up to date list of all the stock that he would have to offer available without having to carry around a catalogue, this could save the rep a lot of time, so that he doesn't have to constantly have to go back to work HQ for an up to date version of the catalogue, which could save a lot of money on travel expenses between work and wherever that he might have travelled to in the country, and also helps them make more sales from their website, which can increase popularity for the company because the website would open it's availability to a much wider audience
These are just some of the ways today that the advances in technology in the information age have made a huge advance in the way that peoples life’s run, including in the work place, through enabling them to be able to work mobile, this is a huge advance in the work place that enables people to be able to work away from work HQ efficiently.
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