Digital Technology in the Workplace: Benefits and Impact

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From last many decade, information and communication technology provides
increasingly large competence to society. In the same way, advance technology plays a vital
role in order to sustain the brand image of a business. In different workplaces companies uses
digital platform in order to improve the business operation. Hence, in the same way, current
study is also focused upon digital technology and how it benefit to professionals in workplace
and organization.
Digital technology are electronic tools, device and resources which generate and
process data. For example social media, online games and mobile phones etc. Also, it enables
different amount of information which can be compressed on small storage device that can be
easily preserved and transported. In addition to this, digital technology further transformed
how people communicate, learn and work. So, society and companies are benefitted by using
digital technology, along with offer various learning opportunities as well. Hence, variety of
organizations recruit experts and professionals who possesses strong ability of digital
technology that directly cause positive impact upon business.
Digital technologies assist to improve the overall business operations (Sternard,
2020). With regard to the same, technology helps to track and streamline the process and
maintain the data flow. In addition to this, company can easily manage the contacts and
employee record that helps to decrease the operation’s cost as well as assist to grow rapidly in
near future. For example, technology like email make the smooth flow of communication
about business operations which causes direct impact over the business productivity. As
technology has taken center stage and there is a continuous shift in the workplace that
promote employers to involved within cloud based collaboration tools. Secondary research
also reflected that 79% of senior manager believe that digital technology promotes them to
work anywhere at any time (Cottrell and Morris 2012). Whereas 86% of the professionals
though that most of the successful companies would be willing to make transformation.
Password protection is one area of digital technology that can benefit the workplace.
It is so because it helps to prevent the data from third party use and this in turn cause positive
impact over workplace. Therefore, it is necessary for the companies to implement the key
measures which include user authentication, identity assurance, data loss prevention etc.
Also, it is examined that there are many advantages of using technology at workplace
such that improve communication. In big firms, there are variety of virtual communication
tools exist and it allows employees to communicate in different ways. Implementing