Running head: AUTOMATION IMPACT ON WORKPLACEAutomation Impact on WorkplaceName of the UniversityName of the StudentAuthor note
1AUTOMATION IMPACT ON WORKPLACEThe modern workplace has transformed in ways that was deemed unimaginable somedecades ago. The storm of globalization and technological advancement has swept away the oldestablished etiquettes of organizational workplace. The phenomenon known as the Internet hasreduced the workload from humans to an extent that it now confronts them as a threat rather thana luxury. However, many experts are of the view that the internet can only reduce the workloadnot the work. Debate over whether the internet has destroyed human involvement at theworkplace is ongoing and does not seem to end in near future. Wisskirchen et al. (2017), statethat the internet has the potential to change the workplace completely replacing humanworkforce with Artificial Intelligence. According to the authors, all the manual work once doneby humans are now being transferred to computers that does the work in less than half the timehumans used to take. It is but also true that the influence of the internet cannot be alwaysperceived negatively. König and De La Guardia (2014) counter the statement arguing that thetechnological advancements along with the integration of the internet have given rise to positivecompetition among businesses. Every work field has been influenced positively by the internet,which is visible from the rise in quality and productivity of the services and products. Theinternet has allowed employees to manage time for socializing. The internet has enabledemployees to be flexible in time and work management. It acts as a tool for learning andcommunication facilitating judicious passage of information over immeasurable geographicaldistances. In a study conducted by Hashim (2015), the author found that approximately 65 to70% employees expressed that online work greatly boosted their morale and interest in work.The introduction of smart phones further elevated the dominance of the internet in the workenvironment. The constant integration and disintegration of technology, the convergence oftechnologies in a single platform revolutionized the way work is done in the 21st century. All the
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