Question

List 10 disadvantagers of using technology on Human labour. Explain each.

Answer 1

1. Causes Distraction at Work: the use of social networks may distract the employees and affect the productivity of employees. Some of the companies have decided to block the access to specific websites such as Facebook, twitter & YouTube. Other distractions also includes cellphones, computers etc.
2. High Maintenance costs: It is expensive to buy a technology and also expensive to maintain it. Most of the small companies can not afford to hire full time technical person. If the business technology tool are not maintained well, their performance will decreases & process of buying new technology can be even more costlier.
3. Makes employees lazy: When most of the works are automated them employees become lazy at work, technology can kill their skills and creativity. Simple tasks such as calculating sales, tracking inventory are done with the help of computer, so employees do not put their brain at work.
4. Affects Workplace Relationships: Employees communication through cellphone, text message, email, video chat will eliminate the face to face communication. Interpersonal skills are very important to build the workplace relationship, because employees will get the chance to know about each others. Technology will make the person more reserved & self centered.
5. It’s Risky : Data security will be risky- All employees in major decision position need access to private business information; This can be a threat, because it is very difficult to monitor the use and privacy of this information.
6. Fewer employment opportunities are there: People will get less job opportunity because most of the works are done by robots and machines. Robots will work more efficient manner than human, due to this thinking many people will left unemployed.
7. The human talent gets lost: Manual work is more appreciated than the machine work. When a person relies entirely on job technology, he or she completely rely on it
8.The lack of understanding: The understanding among individual is affected. This is because of lack of communication. f the client is away from you then you can not connect face to face. Only one can know through Skype or any other technology. Therefore, it leads to less understanding.
9. Huge losses if the technology fails to work properly: There is no life time guarantee for any machine , it can go waste anytime even if it is branded. in such case company has to suffer huge loss.
10. What human can do, a machine can never do: : A machine can never perform as well as the human can. Because human uses his/her brain & machine cannot. No novelty can be brought to the product because machine produce the same thing again. But humans can brainstorm and add the new feature product.