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

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

In the workplace, advances in technology has allowed us to work in ways that weren’t possible in the past. Constraints like location, have become more of a non-issue, and we are more connected to the office than ever before. However, when it comes to balancing those capabilities with our personal lives, for some, that might be a daunting task. While times are indeed changing, technology isn’t hurting us, instead its allowing us to find more of a balance. A study by Accenture, titled “Defining Success,” found that technology played a large role in achieving work-life balance. More than three-quarters of the 4,100 business executives surveyed, thought technology enabled flexibility within their schedules. Eighty percent stating that a flexible work schedule is important to achieve a positive work-life balance.

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

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).

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.

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

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.

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.

Today mobile devices are multifunctional devices capable of hosting a broad range of applications for both business and consumer use. Smart phones and tablet allow people to access the internet for email, instant messaging, text messaging and web browsing, as well as work documents, contact list and more. Mobile devices are often seen as an extension to your own PC. Work done on the road, or away from the office can be linked with your PC to reflect changes and new information. The term mobile device is used to mean a wide range of consumer electronics. Usually mobile devices are used to describe the devices that can connect to the internet. However some will consider digital cameras and standard MP3 players as mobile

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).

Why the concern over mobile technology in our schools for K-12 education? Mobile technology has expanded tremendously over the past few years. The use of having mobile devices in the classroom allows students instant access to the latest news, information, statistics, etc. Mobile technology opens a multitude of learning that was only accessible through encyclopedias before, but has expanded and has endless possibilities. Many schools have a school wide wireless implementation of mobile devices and others have limited access to wireless devices. The opportunity of instructional designers is endless in developing more integration of technology in lesson plans to make the connections between the old ways and with the integration of technology into the classrooms. The following literature reviews will explore the growing trend of mobile technology in the K-12 education.