The Impact Of Technology On The Digital Age

In today’s society businesses rely extremely on computers, cell phones, online surveys, email, etc. when it comes to running a company. Throughout the years technology has grown to where business haves to rely on the new digital age to keep up with their supply and demand. With technology being in the work place problems are bound to arise and of course ethical and social issues will occur.

Small and middle sized companies are quicker to rely on the latest technology in order to help them succeed. According to a study seventy seven percent of respondents say that technology is the key to their success. Technology enables businesses’ to expand much more quickly and efficiently. Social networks, Skype-video conferencing, and different virtual

Having to rely on electronics to communicate creates a whirlwind of unnecessary traffic.

In today’s age technology is constantly being upgraded and improved. Because of the constant upgrading it is not in the companies favor when it comes to being cost-effective. A company has to continuously train their employees each time a new program or software is introduced to the company. This requires money and time; two areas of the business that is extremely important. When employees are being trained in other areas, this takes away time from their regular job and can put the company behind on their schedule. Once a company has a system up and running this system has to be maintenance regularly to be able to run properly with no interruptions. This also adds to the overall cost.

With more technology being added to the workplace security is often beefed up in order to protect the employees and the customers that are at stake. Even though there is an increase in security efforts companies still face the risk of being hacked from outside sources. Most employees have access to personal information that can potentially be hacked into. For this purpose passwords

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For example some websites require the user to change the password to an account every so often in order to make sure someone else can’t access it.

With business it shows that technology is beneficial but it can also bring about some problems that would not be there if it wasn’t for technology. Keeping up with the evolution of technology can be a hassle but with the ever-changing world it is much needed to stay on top of it. As time goes on more and more technology will be brought into the world of business in order to help a company’s