How Has ICT Affected People's Working Style?

Most jobs in the 20th century require a qualification of some kind in ICT. Employees would need to be trained to use ICT to go far in their career. For example, in a bank, all the customers’ personal information needs to be stored on to a database and saved, so the employees would need to know how to use this database. People use computers for many reasons. For one, computers are more productive, and they are easy to use and helps make the employees get their work down quickly. Companies use computer databases so that they don’t have to write down all the customer information and so that it is easier to find. ICT is also helpful when it comes to delivery work. Satellite Navigation Systems can be used when the employees are delivering packages to houses and other businesses. The Sat Nav will show and tell the employee where to go, and also calculates the amount of time that it will take to get to their destination. Another technological advantage to delivery work, are PDAs. A PDA is a mobile device, and it functions as a personal information manager and also connects to the internet. When the parcel has been delivered, the customer needs to sign in the touch screen box, with a little pen on the PDA. This is to confirm the delivery and lets the company know that the right person has received the parcel. The PDA is an advantage because if all the customers had to sign on paper to confirm the delivery, then it would take a long time to make sure that the right customer received the package.

ICT has affected peoples working styles in many different ways in recent years such as:
• Making contact with colleagues and clients but easier
• Giving an option to work from home
• Giving options for various contracts that cover various different job descriptions
• Creating a flexitime situations where people can work at different times depending on their lifestyle
• Work is much more organised through things like spreadsheets, documentation and email organisation
• ICT allows information to be organized processed and stored in a very fast way
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Information and communication technology better known as information technology has affected the working style of people in many ways like information technology helps manage and process information in a quicker and cheaper way particularly in large organisations.

Information technology uses computers and computer based softwares to convert, process, store and transmit information. In most parts of UK, education system uses information technology on a large scale. It was soon understood that application of information technology was very useful for most of the subjects. When internet and broadband connections reached schools the understanding and application of IT became even simpler.

Information and Communication technology has reduced gaps in a large way and helped develop the world a lot. Peer to Peer communication and exchanging information can be done now days with in a matter of seconds.

People have an option to work from home, they can also organize or cancel meetings via e-mail or using a blackberry.

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