Nowadays, technology becomes to be a part of life. People try to develop the technology to improve the life. Therefore, technology contributes to the convenience in daily life. Most of people adapt to their work to make it easier, such as using email and other messengers to communicate in their work. There are many advantages of today technology to support working. However, if peopleimproperly use, these technologies are unbeneficial for both employees and employers. There are two reasons why employees should not be available via email or other messengers during after working hours; to protect employees’ mental health and to give worker’s private time.
To protect the worker’s mental health is first reason for opposing the out-of-office work. Today, the workers take more than 8 hours a day in the office. Some workers do not work only in the working hour, but they also work overtime to finish their project in that day before getting another work tomorrow. It seems the workers tend to have too much stress. If workers have to deal with overloaded work every day, in the long run it would ...
With easy access to it at all times, employees have been using social media at work hours more frequently than it was a couple of years back . This often leads to negative issues that affect the employees and the employers. It has become common for employers to hold social media training sessions; however the workplace needs to take caution to not set unreasonable or unrealistic standards upon employees. This may ignite debate and cause issues between the workplace and the employees. A study conducted by Nuclear Research show that employees who use social media in the day lose 1.5% productivity . Instead of performing work, employees satisfy their desire to check social network sites. When discussing the issue, Aji John of SA Water stated that, “using social media for personal use should only be used in pers...
Many different types of workers are constantly connected to work. They work even when they are away from their jobs, often at nights, on weekends and on vacations,
As we can see workaholism that seems to be not dangerous, can lead to some self-distractive issues. To sum up, people should pay more attention to their work environment and habits, they should have sufficient amount of rest and free time in order to avoid workaholism related dangers.
People while at work are often under psychological pressure. In the "risk group" fall supervisors and managers, people who work with clients, secretaries, salesmen, teachers and indeed, almost any job - the source of stress. According to a 2007 nationwide poll by the American Psychological Association, “three-quarters of Americans list work as a significant source of stress, with over half of those surveyed indicating that their work productivity suffered due to stress” (2013). Why the cause of stress is usually related to our performance at work? Because we spend a third of our life time at work and there are different surprises awaiting for us.
The workplace in general is an essential part of a person’s life to make a living. People will work over a third of their life to fulfil needs such as bill, groceries, and personal needs. For majority of the population, there isn’t much of a problem when they are at work; their manager treats everyone fairly, pay rate is adequate, and they keep their private and public work separate from each other. The rest of the population unfortunately don’t have this fortune. Pay rates vary among colleagues, managers aren’t effective leaders, and the private life might become public in the workforce. This can lead to stress outside the workplace which can be harmful towards an individual’s health. This problem is an epidemic for some companies and poor
Working in today’s society has changed in the last few decades. The economy and technology are the main reasons for this change. The type of job and environment where one works has also changed. The fact that many people work from home via the internet has drastically changed the workforce and the environment surrounding it. With this change have come new demands, expectations, and opportunities for employers. Everyone deals with these demands differently, affecting the employee’s quality of life and job satisfaction. Though the job and office types and locations have changed over the years the need for job satisfaction has not. In today’s economy the job is not as stable as it used to be. One must be prepared for changes in the future.
We believed there is still more to learn about the impact of the built-environment on people creativity, productivity and on involvement into physical activities. Regardless of the occupations, new research must look into how groups of related professions could benefit from a suitable and adapted workspace that could enhance their well-being and reduce the level of stress associated with spending considerable time at work. Other research lead could investigate further the use of flextime for workers, which is been known to allow people to work from home. However, it is not always possible given the variance of work settings and professions.
Workers don’t have enough leisure time, and that affects their lifestyle seriously. Lucas points out 25% of employees always work straight from the morning into the evening and approximately 50% of people eat lunch at their workplace. Also, 40% of employees have to keep staying in touch after they have already worked for long hours. Based on those statistics, we can tell employees can’t leave from the workplace even though they’re on their break. In “Work-life balance holds the key,” Kristine Yang states that a 27-years old copywriter died after working for 30 consecutive hours. Employees need to balance the time of work and the time of rest. Sometimes, they need a relaxation in order to get away from the intensive workload. If they don’t pay attention for work-life balance, that might lead to some serious issues such as the copywriter. Therefore, Lucas wants us to consider more seriously about taking a break after working for a long
Human beings are at times lazy, they always look for the easy way to everything, so they use shortcuts in all parts of their life including their professional one. But, when employees take shortcuts while accomplishing their tasks, especially when working with chemicals or complex machinery, often they put themselves at risk of being injured or dying. Further, a worker’s personal and professional life are linked, so if he or she is stressed, it might affect their ability to concentrate, which causes
First of all, for the working peoples, the appearances of computer technology bring up a convenient
Everyday, there are workers who come home from their jobs with a high amount of health issues. Headaches, aching muscles, exhaustion, and many more health issues have workers wondering why this is happening. All of these symptoms can be linked to stress in the workplace. Job stress has become more of a problem than ever before. Numerous studies show that job stress is the major source of stress for American adults and that it has escalated progressively over the past few decades (“Workplace Stress,” 2004).
The rapid development of information systems and technology brings some positive effects to individuals. In order to use information systems effectively, individuals need to acquire skills and knowledge on using different computer technology. Take an example of an individual working in a project on market research, he needs to learn the way to use spreadsheets for analysing the data. The new knowledge acquired by the individuals will lead to upskilling effect. The innovation of technology brings a lot more new channels of communication, such as e-mail and instant messaging applications, it increases interaction between individuals. The barriers of location is eliminated by technology, people can communicate with one another in anywhere around the world through Internet. In addition, virtual office and work from home are becoming a common practice for companies, people can enjoy more flexibility in working locations and hours, and this is particularly beneficial to individuals who have young children at h...
The late 20th century has successfully witnessed the boom of sophisticated technology, which gave birth to a wide range of technological outcomes, including computer technology. Computer technology, that is a skill to manage information, communicate and a kind of entertainment media, has become an important part in modern life at work, in recreation and social networking. Whether computer technology is better or not is a complicated issue. There are different arguments that need to be examined. Most people support that computer technology is better for individual lifestyles. It improves quality of working and study, provides a wide range of entertainment and is a wonderful tool of communication. On the other hand, others believe that computer
According to Cameron and Webster (2005), IM allows users to see their friend lists which indicate that whether their friends are online, offline or busy. Furthermore, users could adjust their presence information, including automatically log in or log off their IM systems as well as control the amount of idle time. Due to its convenience, the population of IM users has increased significantly in recent years; however there are a great number of potential negative effects of IM that should be noticed at workplace.
(2014). Organizational performance honestly varies on the employees’ performance; consequently employees should be satisfied with skills and knowledge. Employees should be motivated and mentally present at work place. It is possible if employees are not facing work life conflict. Work life conflict makes employees uneasy and mentally disturbed, occupied and stressed. Thus they have absent minds at work place. According to study in hand long work hours, work overload and lack of perceived organizational support leads to work life conflict. Jasim Uddin .M. et al, (2013).This study explained norms, gestures belief of employees and all related effects of organizational culture used on organizational performance.