Throughout history and especially during the last two years, technology has consistently changed the way workers across industries do their jobs. From the industrial age to the modern day, technology has improved working conditions.
However, one question that begs an answer is how great the effect of technology is on businesses, particularly staff members.
Surely, technology’s impact on the work environment has streamlined tedious and environmentally wasteful processes, expedited access to work while exponentially increasing productivity, and made working from anywhere easier than ever. But, is it all?
We have listed some ways in which technology made an impact on businesses and the workforce.
Efficiency
Encouraging innovation and creativity through access to different business technology tools is a useful strategy to increase productivity and efficiency. Having the newest technology available can enable employees to produce better work, it can encourage healthy competition in the workplace, and make your company gain an edge over competing companies.
Technology also enhances flexibility from a spatial point of view. If companies make their content available across different technological platforms, employees can just bring their smartphone, laptop, or tablet for more collaborative work, which reduces time spent on tasks.
Workplace relationships
The increasing presence of technology changes methods of communication throughout the workplace. Using digital technology in the workplace with phones, text messages, email or video conferencing tools decrease the amount of face-to-face communication.
Interpersonal relationships and communications are important in order to establish a functional workplace and technology can negatively impact those relations.
Working relationships and overall company ambience can also be affected by technology, leading to a distracted workforce. The growing use of social networks can affect the productivity and efficiency of staff members at work.
Keeping fully organized
Technology also helps in keeping businesses fully organized. Project management tools and software help in building, delegating, reviewing, and assessing a task.
Employers and business owners can easily supervise workplace activities that help in keeping everything on track. It fixes the responsibility, accountability, efficiency, and timely delivery of tasks assign to people.
Changing office culture for good
Since technology in the workplace has made it both possible and practical to work remotely, companies have needed to create incentives to keep workers happy and drawn to the office.
Ultimately, the biggest impact of technology in the workplace is being able to work remotely, even in the comfort of your own living room! There are now plenty of open positions for telecommuters looking to work remotely at similar companies all over the country.
However, there are still industries that benefit from technology but are immune to remote work. The perfect example is the restaurant and hospitality industry. Because staff members for these industries need to be where the action is.
This gives them an advantage when it comes to interacting and building solid relationships with customers. As a way to provide an even more personalized service, hospitality and restaurant businesses need a steady supply of hot towels and wipes as well as towel warmers and chillers.
Here at Oshiklenz we provide top-quality hot towels, disposable wipes, and alcohol wipes for every business. We even offer package deals that are perfect for those who are just starting to use our products.
If you’re interested, you can inquire by calling (+61) 2 9533 2211 or emailing info@oshiklenz.com.au and our customer representatives will be standing by to assist you.