UNIT 5
Employment Three main effects: Job are lost, job are created and retraining
Working Pattern
Flexible working (flexi-time): Workers can choose their working time but will have to complete the day’s work.
Job sharing: Two or more part-time workers divide their job, replacing one full-time worker.
Part-time working: A contract where someone works fewer hours per week than a full-time employee, in shifts.
Positive and Negative effect of microprocessor in our daily life
POSITIVE EFFECTS:
- Lead to more leisure time since devices can be programmed to do tasks
- More time to socialize
- Becoming very sophisticated and can make use of embedded web technology
- Save energy - switch off automatically
- Easier to program device rather than set timings & dates manually
Health problems caused by prolonged use of ICT
Postured-related injury
Strain Injury
Vision problem
Effects on People:
People need to be retrained due to new technology
Cleaner working environment
De-skilling of workforce
Computers can now do tasks that required high skill level
IT led to unemployment in many areas
Manufacturing - robots have taken over many tasks and are much faster
Computer controlled warehouses – automatic, does not need people
Labour intensive work - printing industry and filing
New jobs have been created in ICT
Writing software
Maintenance of robots
Internet related jobs
Effect on Companies:
Can employ less people
Robots do not take holiday, get sick or need breaks
Greater consistency in products made
Compressed hours: Employees can work longer hours per day but over fewer days, completing the workload sooner.
NEGATIVE EFFECTS:
- More wasteful society since devices thrown away if they fail, not economic to repair
- Unhealthy diets
- People become lazy and rely on devices
- Dependency on technology increases
- Leaving on standby wastes resources