Information Technology and Office life

Information technology has changed office processes dramatically in the modern offices. That is it has impacted office life and particularly qualitiy of life in modern offices. The information technology has positive and negative effects on the quality of life in the modern office. However, the impact of modern information technology differs from one industrial sector to another. As well, its impact differs from one office to the next.

The positive impact of information technology is as follows:

The work becomes more interesting not boring like doing repetitive tasks

The staff work becomes more efficient

The possibility of staff getting more reward as work becomess faster

If work is shared and job rotation and enrichment is practiced staff gets a variety of work and they enjoy good quality of life in general.

The negative impacts of information technology is as follows:

The staff has to learn new skills all the time

The work becomes stressful

The deskilling effect of any technology and possibility of job lossses

The social life in office becomes disturbed because of cahnges in work methods and patterns frequently

The negative health effects of technology replacing physical effort and some repetion of tasks

As mentined above, the benefits of information teachnology to improve office life depends on the way the technology is implemeted and accepted by all levels of staff and managment.

In summary, Information technology has definately has an impact on the office Life. However, the impact vary from one office to the next depending on the type of technology, thephase of implementation, motivation of all staff to accept the technology and the change process and management.