How Mobile Devices and Technology Affect the Way We Work

How using mobile
devices and other
technology affects the
way we work? For better
or worse.

Contents
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................3
Thesis statement....................................................................................................................................3
Conclusion.............................................................................................................................................5
References.............................................................................................................................................6

Introduction
Technology in among those things that are changing rapidly, especially technological
development in mobile phones. There was a time when telephones were used for the sole
purpose of communication but now, they have capability to do anything. But every positive
comes with some negatives. This essay will discuss that whether mobile devices and other
latest technologies is supporting people in their business/jobs or they are making a negative
impact.
Thesis statement
Technology has changed the way people work; and change is positive.
Industrial revolutions bought unexpected changes in the world. There was a time
when all the jobs were done manually but in last 4-5 decades mobile devices and information
technology upgraded the working style. Bew are few advantages of technological
development and mobile devices:
Improves productivity – No one can deny the fact that latest technology has improved
their productivity (Heflin, Shewmaker and Nguyen, 2017). There was a time when
calculations were used for doing complex and lengthy calculation. This device had its own
limits; it can complete work on hours in few minutes. But now there are software that can
calculate complicated figures in few second and they can provide error proof results. Mobile
has all the basic things that are needed by a skilled worker. One can find millions of examples
where technology provided great assistance in increasing overall productivity or an individual
as well as of organisation. People can send mail, monitor their office/factories, make
presentation and manage whole team through their mobile phone.
Increase flexibility – The best thing about mobile devices is that they can be taken
anywhere as no wire is connected to them. They have all the applications that are used at
workplace. This allow people to work at any time, from any place and with whatever device
available to them. Culture of work from home has become very popular lately because of
mobile device and other technology like cloud tech, http and java. More than 5 billion people
are using mobile devices, it proves unarguable success of this gadget (Martin and et al.,
2019).
Assistance in growth of global business – Before internet, globalisation was
happening gradually as people, from different places of this world, were not connected with