Facebook, Google Group, Vista, Twitter — I think we are all familiar with these brands of online service. For the past few decades, there has been a significant improvement on technology sector and more people use them from time to time. Nowadays, people exchange email address and Facebook profile when they meet new people, and teachers announce assignment on either blackboard system or google groups. These new methods to interact with people is a good thing. It’s time efficient — since groups don’t have to meet in a specific place, they can work using VoIP applications such as Skype and edit documents using GoogleDocs, get real-time responses from people all around the world using Twitter, and many more.
For multinational corporations, the existence of all these applications also help them minimize cost for development, because they no longer have to send people to fix problems or to train the employers, they can now do video conference for training, or to have cross-nation meetings, which also is more time efficient.
However, like everything else, there’s always another side of this usage of technology in work, security and privacy issue as the top two concerns. So, what do you think about the usage and dependancy on technology at work? To what extent should people use technology at work and what things cannot be replaced by technology?
