Using Mobile Technology And Its Impact

Work-life balance has been a popular topic for employees across all age and occupations for years, representing a rising concern of contemporary human resource management and labor policies. This topic has attracted the attention from the millennium generation, who is stepping into the market and beginning to grow a career. Therefore considering the increasing demand, well-designed workforce planning with diverse scheduling options offered to employees appears to be extra credits for most companies. This research paper aims to communicate the positive effects of four-day workweek, and providing support for why employers should adopt this schedule for employees and themselves through 1) introducing background and history of four-day workweek as a work schedule option and 2) demonstrating benefits of four-day workweek from both employer and employees’ perspectives.

The use of mobile devices has become so commonplace today that you can hardly step out your front door without them. We have become tethered to technology. Our dependence upon this technology is not the problem, how and where we choose to use it is.

| The ever advancing technology of mobile devices have affected almost every aspect of our everyday lives. Mobile devices have made it easier to communicate. With the way mobile devices right now, people are able to multitask and increase effectiveness of their business. Our devices can search, pay for merchandise and connect you to a business conference on the golf course. In today's business world, people are expected to do more in a lesser amount of time, making devices that can handle this type of behavior more of a necessity. Storage of information can be done on portable (flash) drives and taken with you anywhere you go, making it possible to have information at your fingertips without being tied to an office or home computer. You can send emails from your phone or a tablet making the virtual office a place of regular business. Social media has not only impacted our personal lives, but it has definitely invaded the work environment as well. With the use of Facebook

Even though one would say technology helps one clear out their schedule, according to Turkle who explains, “Even when we are not “at work”, we experience ourselves as “on call” (274). We do not have enough time because there is always something that needs to be done on a cell phone or smartphone for example people call you asking what they missed at work today, people texting you about the money you owe them, and people emailing you to pick them up from the airport. There is always someone new to create “weak-ties” with as well such as the millions of new users that join Facebook everyday. This is in fact why France is soon to pass a law making it illegal to email workers after working hours. This is lessen the intensity of being “on call”.

In some countries such as France and Denmark, there is a great deal of emphasis on ensuring citizens enjoy an appropriate balance between the demands of their jobs and their personal lives through governmental and private sector programs. In other countries, though, such as Japan and the United States, employees may not enjoy the same level and type of support from their society and organization for their work-life needs, placing increased levels of stress on them in ways that are detrimental to day-to-day productivity and overall performance and job satisfaction. These are especially salient issues in information technology companies where the fast-paced nature of the business places enormous pressures on knowledge workers to innovate or perish. To determine what types of work-life problems are common in the information technology workplace and how companies can respond to these issues, this paper provides a review of the relevant peer-reviewed and scholarly literature to identify the problem concerning work-life balance issues in general and how they affect the information technology workplace in particular, followed by an analysis of current best practices. A discussion concerning the options that are available to information technology firms is followed by recommendations for practice. Finally, a summary of the research and important findings are presented in the conclusion.

Over the past decades we’ve been hearing a lot about work-family balance. On average people these days spend every third day working at home in evenings and weekends. Certainly, the composition of today’s workforce continues to change. There are more females coming to workplaces, more dual-career couples and single -parent employees, and more workers involved in caring for significant others. This increasing diversity requires re-examination of how the work and life domains intersect. Juggling the demands of and satisfaction from the work and life domains can be challenging. The borders between our work and life domains are becoming more blur. Also, the modernization and advancement in technology have resulted in more opportunities to engage in work anytime, anywhere.

Mobile computing is the important information system infrastructure. Organization information system mainly get very good benefits from the Mobile computing. From work place and the normal can interact with Mobile computer is made possible by portable computer hardware, software, communication systems that a non-mobile organization information system. The accessibility, improves information quality, enhance management effectiveness all this potentially strategic technology is getting from Mobile computing. I am presenting the detail analysis, by using elucidate and support these asserted benefits of Mobile computing in the organizations. In additionally, a set of MOBILE framework information developed. I am explaining the benefits like defining the types of problems, opportunities and directives of Mobile computing. I am explaining History and efficiency of mobile computing. And I am explaining its business implications.

The article highlights the advantages and disadvantages of the phenomenon of telecommuting at three different levels: the individual, organizational, and societal level. First, Harpaz explains that telecommuting does not have single definition because of “the sheer number of tasks that can now be carried out remotely-and the number of ways in which this can be achieved” (Harpaz, 2002, pp. 74-75). Although, telecommuting has no single definition according to Harpaz, one underlying understanding is that telecommuting in the today’s society is accelerated by the development of online technological devices (Harpaz, 2002). Next, Harpaz provides lists the advantages and disadvantages of telecommuting at the individual level and provides brief explanations for them. For example, autonomy/independence is an advantage that allows “the individual’s control over work [to] occur more freely and naturally” (Harpaz, 2002, p. 75). In conclusion, Harpaz asks rhetorical questions that should be used to identify the type of individuals and jobs that are suitable for electronic work (e-work). Specifically, he asks about individual personality variables for workers and managers of telecommuting jobs in order to determine to guarantee the success of telecommuting jobs.

Being a librarian and one who has always “had a fascination with gadgets” (Hanson, 2011), and a passion for both information and technology, Hanson states he has been working for five years to find a better way to join technology and information. He notes “libraries and librarians have perceived themselves as subject to near-constant technological upheaval and information revolution, largely due to the rise of microcomputing, desktop computing and Internet connectivity.” (Hanson, 2011) He believes libraries are situated in a place to encourage libraries to provide mobile library services. With nearly all Americans owning cell phones, accessing the internet via their cell phones and tablets and major service providers focusing on mobile applications instead of applications for the PC, Hanson suggests it is time for libraries to also focus their efforts on providing mobile services.

The role of work has changed throughout the world due to economic conditions and social

Today’s workforce is filled with a plethora of new technology that was not exposed to the world before. A lot of these technological devices were seen with hopes to possibly make life easier for both personal and work life, which sounds great for employers (Palmiere). With so much technology around and with a generation of tech savvy people he question arises of whether or not people have become less productive in the workforce. With people checking their phone very often, and with so many social media mediums to check people are beginning to believe that our dependence on our devices is hurting companies due to our attention being on our devices. There is no longer a line drawn between work and home when most employees have brought their

As life is getting developed the living style is getting high in several regions around the world which shape a more expensive life that leads male and female for more working hours or to have more than one job to get affluent life. The prior factor additionally the following factors, the workforce is getting older and technology has changed the way we work rapidly, Set off alarm bells of a significant problem which is the conflict between paid work, unpaid work and personal time hence the significance of this phenomenon requires a solution that is able to resolve this phenomenon properly which can be the balance between the work and the life. Work Life balance can be defined as "the degree to which an individual is simultaneously able to balance the temporal, emotional and behavioral demands of both paid work and family responsibility". (Hill et al cited in Sarker, Xiao, Sarker & Ahuja, 2012).

Work-life balance is defined as the ability to prioritize between work and a personal life to achieve what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describes as total worker health. It is simply balancing a career with leisurely and pleasure-inducing activities, such as exercising, spending time with family and friends, and enjoying the things that make one happiest (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015). However, work-life balance is more complicated than the aforementioned description; work-life balance has become a topic of focus in the U.S. as Americans continue to fail to balance their lives between the two realms. Peer-reviewed publications and popular media alike have reported that when work and home lives aren’t coordinated or harmonious, individuals tend to be sicker, unhappier, and less productive in both realities (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 2015).

Mobile technology is the technology people use it all the time in their everyday life. In the early nineteenth century there were only rotary phones which are lot bigger than cell phone we have it now a days. Not everybody had rotary phone because if we look at their time history, having a phone meant a lot back at that time. After cellphone came in life became a lot easier. Now a day everybody have phone including children’s and senior citizens as well. After years of research and experiment, cellphones have become so small that we can put it in our pocket as well. According to one of the New York Times article Flight from Conversation “I’ve studied technologies of mobile connection and talked to hundreds of people of all ages and circumstances about their plugged in lives.” (Par 3).Mobile technology has changed the face of the modern world. Technology so good as such as mobile technology have positive and negative impact on American culture.

A literature review discussing the ways in which modern life choices are affecting the average work life balance of an employee. Scholars have debated the meaning of the term “work–life balance” in the literature for a number of years. Some authors prefer to use the more traditional label of “work– family” in recognition of the fact that for many people, the job and the nuclear family constitute the role domains that demand the greatest amount of time, attention, and energy and are most likely to come into conflict with one another (Kossek, Baltes, & Mathews, 2011). The work life balance of the average worker is changing more and more per year. When the main employer was labour it was very easy for employees to switch off from their jobs