ICT has radically changed the way in which numerous jobs operate today. Computerisation has advanced across all jobs throughout the United Kingdom; it has allowed processes of all kinds to be carried out and completed in a more efficient process and manor. In addition, computerisation has introduced masses of new jobs globally but in return has also removed them.
Over recent years there has been a huge amount of new employment opportunities, this is due to the introduction of computer usage. Technology has become so far advanced today that it is being used everywhere, especially within a work force and company; they are used on a regular basis.
Engineers, programmers, system analysts and skilled technicians are just a few of the jobs available within the job market due to these advances of technology. These jobs have all been provided due to the demand of computerisation throughout major businesses and other areas of employment.
This now means that computerisation has caused multiply types of machinery to now be removed as the need for employment within an individual task is absolute, this could occur in the printing industry for example. So many people today are using there tablets or smartphones or even the TV to keep updated with the news of the world, therefore meaning newspapers and some magazines are becoming less and less popular. However, the application of the new equipment has made new jobs available for the maintenance of the machinery, and various other areas of its application.
How Has the Use Of Computers Changed?
Life today has changed rapidly due to the introduction of computerised software and new equipment. It has altered in a way that any business can now operate it making it more accessible for all to use.
In the past employees of offices and businesses where required to manually sort their files and documents in to cabinets that took up a large amount of space within the office. This took up an astonishing amount of time that they should have been spending doing additional work, it is also easy to mess up where you put your files and accidently misplace them causing this method of handling data to be inefficient.
Today, this system of manually handing data has been replaced by the use of multiple computers being able to access the same data through signing into a programme. However the introduction of computerisation within business has led to numerous job cuts allowing for many large businesses to reduce the amount their employees, cutting costs spent or salaries. This causes higher rates of unemployment and causes many people financial problems.
Advantages of using technology within a business:
· The efficiency that computerisation offers allows for tasks to be carried out at a faster rate as opposed to that of an employee.
· The costs for maintaining a computerised system is relatively cheap compared to that of paying an employee’s wage.
· Using ICT within stores eliminates the chances of simple mistakes within areas such as product costs and sales prices.
Disadvantages of using technology within a business:
· Within widespread computerisation companies can rapidly reduce their employment levels, this can be devastating for the employee, and due to the widespread economic depression unemployment is a key factor that needs to be addressed and corrected. Due to this the negative effect of being replaced by a computerised system is something companies must take very seriously and can be seen today in widespread self-service machines in supermarkets and is the reason for many postal strikes seen today.
· The costs to repair a damaged machine can be catastrophic for small business and massively effect the overall profit for large. Machines maybe cheap to maintain but are notoriously expensive to replace when a fault occurs.
· For those who are not familiar with ICT the idea of having to use it may not appeal to some as they consider it daunting and complicated.
· Simple tasks such as refunding items may require higher supervision this makes the ease of purchase a lot harder and the customers time extended further.
How Will Computerisation Change In the future?
Our current generation as a culture within the UK have grown up knowing of the advances within ICT and have been educated thoroughly to use it. However people of an older generation are not entirely aware of the complexity of a computer and do not know how to operate most of the functions and programmes provided with a computer. But now as the generations go on and computers continue to advance at a rapid speed, the use of computers in the future will become simple to everyone, they will also most likely become out of date. This is because today we now have laptops or IMac’s. Additionally the introduction of tablets has now been made, therefore instead of schools having computers for students to use, tablets will become an easier and more efficient option as technology is advancing all the time.
Teleworking usually means working from home and using ICT to communicate with your workplace. A computer is essential to every teleworker as they are required to complete and transfer all their work through E-mail to their workplace, consequently meaning the employee requires an E-mail address. They need internet access at all times as thorough research is always a must; this internet access needs to be of a decent speed to get work done efficiently and on time. A fax machine is sometimes needed depending on the type of job the employee has, most of the time documents can be sent using the computer software. Videoconferencing is often used to communicate with people therefore the appropriate equipment such as a microphone, speakers and a video camera is needed, this is also useful to have during any meeting they may need to attend. Videoconferencing means any person can use computers to provide a video-link between two or more people, this allows you to see them as well instead of just talking via the telephone.
The teleworker does not physically have to be based at home, for example; a journalist or writer could be anywhere in the world and still get their article or photographs prepared in no time at all ready for the next day’s newspapers, this is only possible if they had Internet access to transfer their files.
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| This is a picture of a typical office today, it is using several types of advanced technology |
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