Technology and Its Impact in the Workplace Essay

Throughout time, it has been evident how a given technology gives us a particular type of society and because a single technology has the ability to set limitations, it is able to change how a society functions. We have seen how with the diffusion of one modest invention, simple horticultural societies changed drastically into complex agricultural ones. With globalization and the proliferation of new technologies, these advances keep impacting and changing the way in which societies live today. The workplace is an example of one area where technologys impact can be examined. For a great majority of time, human capital was the only labor capital available, occupations consisted mostly of manual labor and almost anyone could learn the skills required for completing a job. The introduction and extension of new technologies has replaced a vast amount of that manual labor and the human capital that is now needed, requires greater conceptual and cognitive skills rather than physical capacities. Technological advances today have forced companies all around the world to not only need workers with the ability to understand and adapt to these new technologies, but also ones with innovative and original skills that would enable them to create new ones.Many companies have been struggling to adjust to these technological changes, and machines today have not only replaced the number of employees needed to get a job done, but also the competencies needed to do so. Despite these technological changes globalization carries, Google is a company that has managed to adapt and maintain a combination of high productivity rates as well as worker satisfaction. Google is a great example of a company that has adapted and taken full advantage of technological alterations and is today modifying the way organizations work, how they are controlled and how their employees are managed because they have realized that even though technologies can replace human labor to some extent, machines will not be able think critically, analytically and innovate new...

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