Modern Technology from Home.

NUR SHAFIQA FITRI BINTI KAMSANI
AL 84680 - SECTION 3
TOEFL INDEPENDENT WRITING
QUESTION NO. 19


It is undeniable that the importance of technology has dominated the world nowadays. Almost all businesses and transactions are getting easier by the day with the use of technology. However, it is found that technology too, has drawbacks for some people. Personally, I am inclined to believe that the use of modern technology by the workers to work from home only benefits them, not the employers as they can work efficiently but the employers cannot have better relationships with them and the management of the documents make things easier for the workers yet the employers cannot observe their performance in work directly.

Modern technology offers benefits to workers, for example they can do their work from home with the help of the Internet connection which saves their time, money and energy needed to travel to the office. It also creates an efficient and effective way of working as sending documents can be done in a blink of an eye by clicks on the net. On the other hand, the employers cannot have better relationships with their workers as the technology only involves the exchange of the information and does not contribute to their communication skills. This may lead the company to having low quality workers, as they do not have the skills to deal with clients, thus affect the outcomes of the company which give bad returns to investments of the employers. It can be concluded that modern technology makes work efficient for the workers but it is a drawback for the employers.

In addition, modern technology revamps the management of the documents. From hard-copy to soft-copy files, such as PDF files and JPG files, the revolution made by technology helps works easier to be done as the workers do not need to burden themselves filing the hard-copy documents when they can actually save cost and space by storing the soft-copy documents in portable storage devices, for instance pendrives. However, technology prohibits the employers to observe the performance of the workers because they do not meet each other in order to complete the work, for example, they cannot evaluate the way of completing the work from the workers as the workers do not work under their observations as in the office. To sum up, the use of modern technology only benefits the workers, not the employers.

In conclusion, I strongly agree that the use of modern technology is only beneficial for the workers but not the employers. It is because the workers can work efficiently with the help of it but the employers cannot have better relationships with them and the management of the documents make things easier for the workers yet the employers cannot observe their performance in work directly. The employers and the workers should work in the office as well as using the modern technology so that the productivity and the quality of the outcomes will be higher thus increase the economic level of the country.