How IT Impacts Employees

Most employees work in the same environment every single day, so it only makes sense that if IT is involved in their workplace then it affects how the employees work. Some say that information technology is detrimental to the work place. They believe that the disadvantages that IT gives to the employees outweighs the advantages of IT. On the other hand, some believe that IT is good for the employees and enriches their job environment. To balance these opinions with equal critic, information technology can be separated into two different categories.

The first category is automated technology. Automating technology eliminates the human skills that are needed to complete certain work processes. This decreases the need for employees in that working area, and therefore employers are hiring a little bit or none at all for those working environments. This type of IT also demoralizes current and potential employees because they are unaware of when automated technology will make them unnecessary. The automated technology allows employers to question how far are they willing to make their organization rely on IT instead of human labor?

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 The second type of IT is informated. The purpose of informating technology is to enrich the work processes. This is an advantage to employees and employers. In this case information technology will remove repetitive tasks which will allow employees to be more productive in their work process. Due to the presence of this type of IT, employment will be affected by how creative and intellectual an employee is. Will this mean that in order to seek for employment, a person needs to know how to work out problems without specified rules? How can we challenge ourselves so that we rise above IT and bring in positive results?

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