Workplace Relationship
The way a person communicates depends on the situation. In an office environment people treat coworkers with a professional respect; in a social setting they treat their friends completely different. Electronic communication has affected the way people interact with each other. The level of personalization in the workplace depends on the context, emotional support, expressions, trust, and situation of the environment. With the increase in electronic communications, how can we ensure positive interactions with our coworkers?
Electronic Communications
Electronic communications have become the new form of interacting with coworkers and friends. Business relationships have become based on the way people interact with each other via electronic communications. As society broadens the scope of communication, we must think about how we are interacting with our coworkers and if it is a positive interaction. Electronic communication began with the telephone, typewriter, fax machine, television, and computer. Each of these communications brought about a new form of communicating. “With the coming of the telephone, the balance between public and private was redefined. Privacy increased in that much of the business that used to require face-to-face encounters (many of the house calls made by physicians, commercial transactions) could now be handled by telephone” (Baron 222). Each of these communications changes the way we interact with each other and how we conduct ourselves. As we grow accustomed to the new electronic communications, some people still use traditional forms of communication, such as paper documents. “There is an inherent difference between paper and digital technologies as communicative substrates: where paper documents are fixed, digital materials are fluid” (Levy 36). We have an abundance of options when it comes to using electronic forms of communication. “New, comparatively fluid communications technologies make it easy to deprecate older, more fixed ones
Electronic Communications
Electronic communications have become the new form of interacting with coworkers and friends. Business relationships have become based on the way people interact with each other via electronic communications. As society broadens the scope of communication, we must think about how we are interacting with our coworkers and if it is a positive interaction. Electronic communication began with the telephone, typewriter, fax machine, television, and computer. Each of these communications brought about a new form of communicating. “With the coming of the telephone, the balance between public and private was redefined. Privacy increased in that much of the business that used to require face-to-face encounters (many of the house calls made by physicians, commercial transactions) could now be handled by telephone” (Baron 222). Each of these communications changes the way we interact with each other and how we conduct ourselves. As we grow accustomed to the new electronic communications, some people still use traditional forms of communication, such as paper documents. “There is an inherent difference between paper and digital technologies as communicative substrates: where paper documents are fixed, digital materials are fluid” (Levy 36). We have an abundance of options when it comes to using electronic forms of communication. “New, comparatively fluid communications technologies make it easy to deprecate older, more fixed ones