Many companies nowadays have started to switch from sending employees to expensive training lessons to providing online teaching videos. By allowing the workers to be trained online, this creates advantage in terms of cost, quality, and access [1]. Online training provides employees to access 24/7 at their own pace as well, making their learning experience more flexible.
This emerging situation can be seen as both an advantage and disadvantage in human resources. Advantage being that the existing technology can create more opportunities for employees to have access to these resources, which also benefits the companies as well by saving costs. However, disadvantages also arise as consultants and counselors are no longer needed due to their relatively expensive prices. Although some might argue that real life experts will perform and help train the workers more efficiently, there are still video training online provided by true and famous experts of the field.
The bottom line, I believe, is that the human resources organization need to keep up with the pace of technology and the consultants must use them as new resources to their own advantage, and not be threatened by them.
Sources:
[1] http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/small-business/sb-managing/human-resources/e-learning-is-hit-and-miss-how-to-choose-wisely/article5339634/
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