What are the disadvantages of Employment in the Information Age?
· Unemployment rates are increasing due to computers being developed to perform a job more effective and quicker than humans can.
· Computers lack the ‘human instinct’. When a computer system is faced with a decision making situation they will not be able to deal with it, unless they have been programmed to do so.
· Computers can be prone to power cuts.
· Companies must invest heavily in computing systems.
· The use of computers can reduce the amount of human interaction with the company – this can result in the company losing customers.
What are the advantages of Employment in the Information Age?
· The obvious advantage of computer systems is that the efficiency or the job in hand is improved – almost instant success of the task can be achieved.
· More consistent standard – this is due to computers being programmed to do the job, unlike humans they won’t make mistakes due to a slip of the finger or being tired.
· Computers, although they may cost in the first place, they do not need to be paid hourly or monthly unlike humans – so cost in the long run is cheaper.
· Companies can use computers to advertise to specific people who take interest in similar things to their companies on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
Employment in the industry
Computing can be used in the industry for a variety of different tasks. Computing Numerical Control or CNC ensure that the computers and machine deliver and complete tasks to high standards. The CNC is used most frequently in the textile industry. As machines are becoming more able it has a huge impact on the employment/unemployment figures as previously mentioned computers are cheaper, quicker and much more efficient.
CIM is another form of computing found in industries. CIM allows the whole production line of a company to be controlled by machines – this result in the process being less at risk to mistakes or faults.
Online Employment Industry
There are many sites online now which can be used to help people find jobs, with unemployment being at an all-time high, this is a necessity. Large shops, especially supermarkets uses computer systems to check the stock and control online shopping within the store; in the long run this is a quick, efficient and reasonably cheap alternative to employing staff to do it.
Personal Experience:
In Sainsbury’s small hand held scanners are available when entering the store. This means that customers can scan their own items and reduce the time taken at the till – this again increase efficiency and speed. In business such as Fujitsu large documents can be store on systems such as Microsoft Excel or Word – this saves space and they can also be backed up making them much more reliable than hard copies.
Google AdSense
AdSense allows website owners to register their site to allow different forms of advertisement. It is seen as the most popular advertising application available online.
Different types of AdSense:
· Feeds: Inserting images into a feed. If a user was to click on the image shown they would be redirected to the advertiser’s website.
· Search: Allows website’s to have Google search boxes on their websites.
· Mobile content: Generates earning from their mobile website using Google advertisements
· Videos: Placing ads on sites such as YouTube.
'Digital Revolution'
This is sometimes referred to as the ‘third industrial revolution’. The Digital Revolution is the change from analog to digital technology which has been going on from the 1980s to the present day. The key to this revolution is the mass production and widespread use of digital devices such as computers, mobile phones etc.
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