Professional Practices

Lecture 12

Change in Nature Of Work Due

to IT
 Introduction
 Over the entire world work communities are experiencing change. The labor force and
industrial relations system is changing. The nature of work and the patterns of working
lives are changing.
 Many say globalization is the reason. Some say it is to boost productivity and provide
flexibility for workers, employers, and businesses that make up our new economy. These
issues are clearly seen when we look at our changing work patterns.
 There is an increasing role for technology in our working lives. Technology is transforming
the way we do business.
 For example, there is a boost in interactive services involving the internet and information
technology in the workplace. It removes the need for a visa, as information links are made
automatically by computer to immigration officials, travel agents and airlines.
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 The technological changes in the nature of work are designed to improve time, and cost
and work efficiency.
 In addition, many young workers are increasingly technology literate/aware and use a
variety of tools such as home shopping and home banking via the internet.
 Structural changes to our work
 'Structural change' is an economic explanation for our changing work patterns. It refers to
key work and labour force changes, such as the reduction in full-time work and the
increasing economic hardship of lower income workers compared to the increased
affluence of higher socioeconomic groups.
 Structural change also refers to industrial change, corporate deregulation/downsizing and
changing occupational structures.
 The changing structure of work has transformed the three traditional work sectors:
Primary, Secondary and Tertiary.
 Primary industry is the raw materials/natural resource extraction like in agriculture or
mining.
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 Secondary sector involves the conversion of primary materials into goods for consumption,
like car manufacturing, construction, or electricity, gas and water provision.
 The Tertiary sector refers to communication, entertainment, business, and professional and
community services.
 Our changing working lives

 There is also a range of related changes taking place in our working arrangements, which
are good for some workers and undesirable for other groups (such as low skilled workers).
There has been a general increase in the weekly hours of work from an average of 35 hours
to 45 hours and in some cases, workers do not receive overtime pay for extra hours
worked.
Problems and Solutions

 Job Elimination:
Technology has replaced most positions which humans used to occupy.
Accounting is now being done by software, so accountants run out of opportunities.

Solution:
Intelligent machines will increasingly displace many workers. But they believe that
work will eventually shift to new jobs that technology creates.
“Workers will be displaced, not replaced”.
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 Security Breaches:
Since businesses store their data on remote cloud servers which can be
accessed with a user name and password, they risk losing that data to wrong minded
knowledge works, hackers or viruses, which can harm him business.

 Solution:
Use hard-to-guess passwords, keep your computer software up-to-date, encrypt your
data, and save your backups.
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 Faulty products and duplication:

In most cases auction websites have products that are not
real. So a user can bid on a shoe thinking it is original, upon delivery, they discover that the
shoe is fake and it does not resemble the picture on auction.

 Solution: We should purchase things from the trusted websites.

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 Privacy:
Ecommerce websites collect personal data using cookies to know more about us
and suggest products basing on that information. This data is collected without any notice, but
with selfish intent.

Solution:
We should be focus that, website is authenticate not fake.
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 Internet security issues:

For the merchant to process an order online, a consumer has to
provide their financial details. Experienced hackers can use this lop hole to channel this
information and use it for their own needs.

 Solution:
we need to focus on ensuring the Internet is stable, secure and resilient. To do so, it
is important that these issues be addressed by all stakeholders in a spirit of collaboration and
shared responsibility. It is also important that these issues be addressed in ways that do not
undermine the global architecture of the Internet or curtail internationally recognized human
rights.
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 Cyber-sickness:
With the increased addiction to social networks and internet games, people
are spending more time on computers and give up on their normal offline life.  This has
resulted into relation breakups and increases loneliness.

 Solution:
We should manage our timetable and should give some time to the extracurricular
activities like as we should give time to our friends, family members and should also give time
to the exercise.