Security Considerations For Teleworking Employees

Technology has been a large part of American culture for the last 200 years and continues to grow more each year. This has made a large impact on our everyday lives and how we interact with one another. The U.S. alone sends over 6 billion texts each day! (Textrequest). This takes away quality time engaging with friends and family. Phones and other devices have taken over our way of communicating, thus affecting our relationships with others.

Telecommuting has been shown to reduce absenteeism, improve retention, and reduce recruitment costs for the organization (Family, pg. 730). Increased employee moral is also a benefit associated with telecommuting (Professional Isolation, pg. 512). Offering this new benefit that is such a satisfier for employees will likely result in reduced turnover within the organization and higher productivity. A study found pubic employees who were satisfied with their telework/telecommuting benefits were less likely to leave their positions (Family pg. 732). With the reduction of office time, an increase in employee productivity is likely due to fewer interruptions from fellow employees (Lessons pg. 10). With telecommuting having benefits to both the employer and employee, this new policy should bring positive results to the

Technology today is more relied upon than ever before. If one needs to call someone half way around the world, simply take out a cell phone and dial their number. Within thirty seconds, one can be speaking to that person just as if two people were conversing face-to-face. In the same manner, one has access to endless knowledge and resources by the pushing of a few buttons or the click of a mouse. The usage of social media today is becoming more prevalent than ever before because of the convenience it offers. This convenience includes being able to instantly know where a person is, what they are doing, and how they are feeling. All of these instances have one main commonality : technology. The interminable technological advances one has

A revolution is spreading through the world of work because of changes in information, technology and communication. Information and technology has lessened the gaps between individuals and it is no longer necessary for people to be in close geographic location to enhance working capabilities. Telework means working at a distance and technology makes this possible. Teleworkers are defined as employees or contractors who work at least one day per month; they are also referred to as telecommuters. Research shows that teleworkers work nine days per month at home with three hours per week during normal business hours. Teleworkers seek to blend work responsibilities and personal benefits to enable them handle their work better and life responsibilities.

Nowadays, with the non-stop developments of socioeconomics, it is an undeniable truth that technologies and social networks are playing a vital role in our daily life. We have come to the new era of communication when people can contact each other everywhere, at every moment. Thus, technologies are now the dominant factor in our communication today, since we have such an exceptional access to information and people. Truly, geographic limitation is now destroyed in terms of communication. However, we are becoming more ignorant about how these technologies are affecting our life every day. We are abusing these communicating methods without

Nowadays, the revolution of the internet and the social media changed patterns of social relations and it is very rare to notice face to face interaction between individuals as we used in the past. Unfortunately, even at home, when a family is eating dinner, or waiting for a family guest, everyone is staring at a small screen device connected to the internet, posting a comment, sharing a picture, taking a snapshot, Etc. No one can deny that the revolution of the internet and the massive use of social media have transformed the way people used to communicate with each other in everyday life. Today, an individual would prefer to text

My name is Diana Snyder, I am a Graduate Student at the Keller University School of Management with emphasis in Human Resources Management. Because of the slow economy management want to institute telecommuting and my presentation will focus on the advantages and disadvantages of telecommuting

In today's society the web and social media could be found being used by hundreds of thousands worldwide. This being 2015 compared to the years past, people have made a tremendous change when boarding down in digital mobile devices. Communicating not just verbally, but virtually. Using digital mobile devices to connect with social media sites such as Facebook, Tumblr, LinkedIn, google+, Myspace, Pinterest, etc. People have surpassed the old fashioned ways of communicating, back when digital mobile wasn’t so updated or advanced. Now that mobile has made a huge progress and people have adapted to this change so swiftly, it’s become their everyday routine in life. Either it’s getting up and checking your messages or chatting via mobile while on the go. There’s always going to be that piece of

In “Living Networked On and Offline” Barry Wellman, a retired Sociologist Professor along with Keith Hampton, Professor of Media and Information, elaborate on the ways which technology advances have enhanced our method of communicating with others. Indeed, this great technological has greatly increased people ability to communicate with family, friends, and associates across the globe. Certainly, technology communication is cheaper, easier and faster way to access and connect people. Truly, the ability to communicate with technology has increased the speed of spreading information from friend to friends and neighbor to neighbor. Also, technology such as emailing has led to the feeling that we have access to everyone, anytime and anywhere. In

The end of the twentieth century dawned a series of innovating technologies that would forever change human culture. Computers were first on the market, followed by telecommunication devices, known today as cellphones, and finally the world revolutionizing Internet; Which would forever change access to information, and interactions with others. Now in the twenty first century, technology is a large factor in everyday lives. Limiting human contact has had a negative effect on people's lives due to cellphones, computers, and social media. Cellphones enhanced abilities to communicate with people that had not been there before. The narrative to call someone, seemingly on the other side of the world, was fresh and invigorating. On the other hand, at this day

Since this sudden commonplace use of technology in the early 2000’s, things have continued to progress. The use of technology has still continued to grow around the world. In the UK alone over 3 billion texts are sent a week (Thomas). This amount does not include the rest of the world, but it does prove to be an interesting observation of the growth in text messaging over time. With these numbers, it has also been observed that the average person sends over 50 texts a week (Thomas). Studies are showing that most people are going out into public and sitting on their phones more than socializing with those around them (Wygant). These observations clearly show how dramatically things have changed since the time of the first text message, to now.

It is fairly obvious that digital communication is expeditiously become the new norm. “The problem was not the will to communicate, but the effort we put into it. Facebook is more convenient than anything else — a problem I eventually realized — and because almost everyone (our age) we encounter uses it, it is the prime force of communication. So what does this mean for the future? Where will this take us?” (Simons, 2010) Sean Simons, a writer for Collegiate Times talked about how technology is

With the use of technology increasing substantially as well as with the new generation who relies on such technology, telework has become the future of work. Companies embrace and adopt telecommunicating practices, as the benefits are clear. For this reason, telework was chosen as a project to be implemented in the business in order to gain profit and in turn reduce turnover. Berkeley College conducted a comprehensive program that analyzed companies such as AT&T. This study was conducted to discern the percentage of savings that would result from such action. Thus, AT&T initiated 30,000 employees nationally to begin to telecommute from home. Through the next five years, they studied this program and found that AT&T was able to save

During Shirley Turkle’s TED 2012 talk entitled “Connected, but Alone,” she presented the idea of how technology is eroding the personal side of communication. More specifically, Turkle focuses on communication technology such as text messaging, emails, and social media as the source of this erosion. She explains how our “plugged in lives” changes the way we live and communicate. This technological form of communication creates a new psychological feeling of belonging or togetherness and yet, in reality, creates a separation from a truer or more traditional form of communication. (Turkle)

Recently, there has been a growing request for options to telework/telecommute within various departments at the St. Anthony Foundation. I recommend the Human Resource department adopt a policy that will include processes for eligibility, task reporting, and managerial oversight for telecommuting employees. The organization recognizes having more flexibility in work schedules will alleviate some work and family conflict, and hopes telecommuting will be a benefit for the employees (Pynes, 2014). Having a formal policy on teleworking/telecommuting will minimize any misuse of this benefit and will ensure all requests are fairly considered.