Getting to Know the Technology
Table of Contents
1. Getting to know technology 1.1 Introduction 2 1.2 The Modifying Workplace 2 1.3 Flexible Workplace 3 1.4 Computer Structure 3 1.5 The Internet 4
2. Changes and issues in Modern technology 2.1 Changes in Communications 5 2.2 Electronic Email (E-mail) 5 2.3 Issues 6 2.4 Health issues 6 2.5 Comparison 6
3. Solution and summary 3.1 Soluition 7 3.2 Summary 7
1.1 Getting to know technology The age of technology and more specifically, computer systems has caused a remarkable move in the way we work nowadays. Just 20 years ago, enhancements such as the Facsimile (FAX) device, and the Personal Computer (PC) were state-of-the-art and considered leading edge. Nowadays, many organizations wouldn 't be able to operate efficiently without these tools. Furthermore, marketing and sales communications as we know it, would almost disappear without E-mail, fax-on-demand and teleconferencing. We have gotten so acquainted to the presence of computer systems and the solutions they offer that many of us don 't remember what it was like before. This report will attempt to discuss the development of some of today 's technological innovation and their impact on how we do company.
1.2 The Modifying Workplace
Many workers were slow to take up technology; this latency is due to some individual’s natural resistance to the types of adaptation presented by changing technological innovation. Many employees are nervous and/or exacerbated of being forced to modify the way they execute their job operations. Every company has people that would much rather be operating "the old way". Slowly, these people are either adopting or modifying or are facing reduction. This reduction can take the form of either wearing down or in extraordinary instances - cancellations or layoff. It is not unusual for a company to go through a cleansing procedure that removes "dead-wood" and people who do not obtain the needed skills. Because computer systems are
1. Getting to know technology 1.1 Introduction 2 1.2 The Modifying Workplace 2 1.3 Flexible Workplace 3 1.4 Computer Structure 3 1.5 The Internet 4
2. Changes and issues in Modern technology 2.1 Changes in Communications 5 2.2 Electronic Email (E-mail) 5 2.3 Issues 6 2.4 Health issues 6 2.5 Comparison 6
3. Solution and summary 3.1 Soluition 7 3.2 Summary 7
1.1 Getting to know technology The age of technology and more specifically, computer systems has caused a remarkable move in the way we work nowadays. Just 20 years ago, enhancements such as the Facsimile (FAX) device, and the Personal Computer (PC) were state-of-the-art and considered leading edge. Nowadays, many organizations wouldn 't be able to operate efficiently without these tools. Furthermore, marketing and sales communications as we know it, would almost disappear without E-mail, fax-on-demand and teleconferencing. We have gotten so acquainted to the presence of computer systems and the solutions they offer that many of us don 't remember what it was like before. This report will attempt to discuss the development of some of today 's technological innovation and their impact on how we do company.
1.2 The Modifying Workplace
Many workers were slow to take up technology; this latency is due to some individual’s natural resistance to the types of adaptation presented by changing technological innovation. Many employees are nervous and/or exacerbated of being forced to modify the way they execute their job operations. Every company has people that would much rather be operating "the old way". Slowly, these people are either adopting or modifying or are facing reduction. This reduction can take the form of either wearing down or in extraordinary instances - cancellations or layoff. It is not unusual for a company to go through a cleansing procedure that removes "dead-wood" and people who do not obtain the needed skills. Because computer systems are
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