World Internet Connectivity: Business Analysis

There has been officially World Internet Connectivity since 15th June 1995. An Internet application is software that allows its users to execute business logic using a universal, client-server browser architecture (Conallen, 2000). Business to consumer Internet applications directly interface with customers and constitute the product or service offered to them.

Resource sharing facilitates economies of scale and pay-as you-go pricing. Multi-tier clustering allows an online service provider to more easily scale up and grow the business.

New types of applications drove significant change through disintermediation, putting more power than ever into the hands of consumers. The new paradigm created giants such as Google, Amazon, and eBay and

Use of technology within the ethical limits definitely benefitsthe organisation, along with improvisation in individual and group performance.

On one hand, employee workload reduces through technological advancement; on the other number of employees to perform a task is also reduced, thus reducing job opportunities. Companies use advanced technologies to check and evaluate employee’s performance via Human resource management department.

To drive productivity and manage human capital, HR department leverages emerging technology to keep up with the market trend. Current technology trends impacting HR are Outsourcing and focus on value that HR brings to the organisation. The demand for better service performance has driven a technological trend towards more powerful, integrated and scalable system components.

Impact of technology on productivity

Impact of technology on work-life balance

Work-Life Balance is a comfortable state of equilibrium achieved between a person’s primary priorities of their employment position and their personal lifestyle. To put it in simple words demands of a working individual’s career should not overwhelm his ability to enjoy a satisfying personal life beyond the business environment.

These days, we have so many potentially labour saving technological devices, which we have deeply inculcated in our daily practices but with a logical question: to what extent do such advances increase rather than decrease workload and stress? New technology can clearly enable us to work faster and more efficiently, and it facilitates flexible and remote working e.g. work from home, preparing quick presentations and reports with use of cell phones besides computers and laptop but it can also mean that we cannot ever really get away and switch