Wireless Communication and Its Effect on American Workforce

Wireless Communication and Its Effect on American Workforce

  • Submitted By: sam4u
  • Date Submitted: 12/08/2008 1:37 PM
  • Category: Technology
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Technology underlies all of the changes in today’s nomadic societies. Wireless communication in particular, through constant improvement, has changed the way people work, live, love and relate to places. It has given a total different meaning to time, place and other people. Wireless communication technology is diffusing around the planet faster than any communication technology to date. Because communication is at the heart of human activity in all field, the advent of this technology, allowing multimodal communication around the globe, where there is the appropriate infrastructure, is supposed to have profound social effects. Working adults were the first adopters of mobile communication. Indeed, first adopters of the device were truckers, construction workers and maintenance engineers and the device was thought of as a tool for work, basically because of its price. However, it became more widely adopted, thanks to the use, which the other social sectors made of the device once mobile communication costs became affordable. Mobile telephony, indeed, first affected what we can call mobile workers, that is, the staff that works both at the office and out of the office. So then, for instance, a mobile worker could be a commercial that has to visit different clients located in the same city where the office is or in another continent. Wireless communication allows permanent availability, which is positively valued in general but especially at work and its influence is, in some sense, similar to other contexts. Productive time, as opposite to dead time, has increased, thanks to “around-the clock” contact, because time spent traveling can be used to go on with productive activities that previously were impossible, or more difficult to do. Blackberries allow flexible ways of gaining access to e-mail and to other documents in a more casual way than a laptop enables. In this sense, it should be highlighted that WiFi hotspots in airports and hotels are already helping...

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