Changes in Communications in the Workplace

From talking in person to each other and doing presentations in front of many board members or companies to today emailing each other back and forth , and having presentations through webcams and video conferencing. Communication has certainly changed in workplaces. Before communication was strong due to the fact that it was face to face conversations or voice to voice through phone but now it is computer screen to computer screen. Face to face communications were able to provide a person with confidence and ability to interact with people you don’t know. Now there isn’t a need to interact personal because of the new technologies available to people in workplaces. There is nothing personal in workplaces anymore it’s all about the context. Work related relationships are affected because of gap in communication in workers. Communicating through emails and messages takes away the emotional values of the context, meaning there is no space for interpersonal communication. For example if there is a communication gap like this, then there is no trust or confidence in each other for the employer and employee. The work level improves through these new communication technologies but there is a loss of the actual reason for communication, which is to convey more than just the context. 

  

Changes in Technologies in the Workplace

Amazing new technologies are introduced into the workplace daily. They help connect the world in a way which was not possible before. Workplaces were limited to do business with those only in the same country. But now programs such as Skype, MSN which let you chat and video conference with anyone around the world with the same technology has abled workplaces to expand their business. Now a business can be viewed by anyone in the world as long as the business has a published website on the internet. Before all an office consisted of were phones and computers which were only used to do certain tasks. Now things are different, while the phone has the same purpose, the computer has changed; now there are work based chatting services, where all the employees in different areas and departments can communicate with each other. Workplaces now have a huge amount of people, and to be able communicate with all face to face is a hard and time consuming task to achieve, instead emails and instant messages are quicker to achieve. Before paperwork had to be mailed through snail mail which would take days has now changed into emails which only take a few seconds. 
            

My Thoughts

All around us the world is changing day by day, thus resulting in technology to evolve to fit into this modern world. As new technologies come into the world, they have to be integrated into our society. And how exactly are they integrated? Simple into the workplace. When new technologies are introduced the best located for them is the workplace because technologies such as the internet help the workplace to achieve their tasks in improved and faster quality. If a workplace is able to use the technology to their benefit and has a liking towards it, the word will be spread of the technology by the employers which results in the people outside of the workplace showing interest in the same technology. While technology is a great thing for the modern world, it has enabled the people using the technology to use it as a crutch to communicate. Communication has been said to be the key in teamwork, and workplace requires teamwork. Communication started out to be a way to get to know your co-workers, employees and employers, but due to the change in the technologies of communications it has now become a way of getting things done fast. As a user of technology such as the internet and cellphone, they have provided me with great entertainment and effective way of communication with my friends and family, but have left me with a gap and awkwardness to communicate face to face with people outside of my comfort zone. Weather it is my workplace where little things such as schedules are now emailed to us instead of the manager telling us face to face , to group works where now all the communication is done through emails and messages; technology has certainly harmed our ability to communicate with each other on a regular basic.