Another thing would be how business practices would have changed for example the most basic thing would be printers because it means that people don’t have to write out things and take ages which can be hard on the hands tiring and slow.
Peoples work patterns
With inventions like mobile phones, e-mail and laptops the world of work has changed greatly. The use of mobile phones meant that people don’t have to go to the otherside of the building to talk to someone he or she can do it anywhere with a signal. Also phones have improved a lot and with things like video conferencing people can join in with meetings from the other side of the world. Another good thing would be that if there is an emergency that requires a quick response then where ever the user is they can make a call and get it sorted. Phones know also have text messages which can be quick and to the point so that could be another good thing to come from mobile phones.
E-mail is a bit like text messages accept they can be a lot more detailed and lengthier. Like mobiles these can be used to contact people from along way a bonus though to e-mail is that pictures, movies and web addresses can be sent as attachments. They can go into better detail than you probably could if you were talking face to face as you can attach information.
Another thing would be the Internet, which is brilliant as you, could make a site for your business, which can then be accessed by anyone who is in the business. On the site you can then put photos, sounds and information. You can also but a password on it and only give the password to employees and people that need to see it. You can also use a local Intranet, which can be used to access information from within the network.
And then you have laptops which enable people to do work and go online anywhere this means that you have a lot of work to do but you have to travel you can do it while you are on a plane or train or any mode of transport. This is just a big version but bigger and all the bonuses of e-mail and Internet. These however can be expensive and unless it’s a big business then they won’t be affordable.
All these technologies help employees to be fast and efficient and get work done from anywhere in the world.
I.C.T training and skills required.
In the world of employment people need to get more and more qualifications. I think that I.C.T is getting as if not more important as English, Math’s and Science. This is a bit of a problem because some people might find computers incredibly difficult to use. However I.C.T is being made a lot easier than it perhaps was before. Special packages and hardware mean that people with special needs and other disabilities can use I.C.T. A piece of software that comes with word that is widely used and very helpful would be spell checker as it is an amazing aid and enables you to type with out to much worry as to how words are spelt. There is other I.C.T that isn’t as widely used but are probably as if not more helpful than the spellchecker, for a blind person the next piece of hardware would be a lot more helpful. This piece of software enables blind people to work in a office job and live a normal life it is called a Braille keyboard and uses keys that have Braille letters instead of conventional ones. There is also for partially blind people larger monitors that mean that people who find it hard to see don’t have to squint at the screen of a computer. And finally (not that there isn’t lots more technologies of course) is colored keyboards so if people who find it hard to see cant read the letters on a keyboard can just recognize a color and relate each key to a colour.
The way people interact at work
There has been a lot of communicational devises invented that use I.C.T and these can help people in business as well as people trying to socialize. I explained most devises already but one more would be pagers and these are widely used in business as these are like texting on a phone meaning that they are very useful and enable fast communication between people at a great distance from each other.
The types of jobs available.
With the invention of internet a couple have jobs have been introduced one of these being web designer which basically works so that business get into contact with a web designer and then they come along and create a web page for the business that is done professionally. A professional web site might make people think that the business is good and will go to that business. There is also a job involving fixing computers where as a business might decide that they want to hire someone who can fix the computers quickly. The bonus of hiring someone to do this is instead of having to wait for someone to drive to you the worker can stay in your companies and fix any problems that might occur.
