Achieving work life balance in the digital workplace.
Companies need to stay competitive if they wanted to be successful. The speed of information sharing makes it very easy to communicate with other people. Processes or services, that are digitized have created greater efficiencies. Companies need to keep up with changes in technology to stay relevant and marketable. As such, in order to stay competitive, marketable, and relevant, it’s important for companies to upgrade their technologies on how they serve consumers. Workers/individuals would need to upgrade their skills to fit those job requirements to fulfill those needs. This creates a demand from the workplace, because there’s a need to meet those demands.
While the advent of digital technology, spurred knowledge information sharing at a speed of light, there are some downsides. With so much information available at our fingertips, sometimes it is difficult to discern which is factual or not. It can be overwhelming for people to digest what information is truly relevant to them and which information is not valuable at all. With the increase of sharing information, there are more tendencies to misuse, lose and manipulate that information. Social media is a perfect example of a powerful tool that while connects everyone globally, it also has the ability to isolate. Because we are often sharing information on social media, we are spending less face-to-face time with people. It makes you think you’re connected, but are you really?
The greatest challenge in the digital workplace is the problem of connectivity to other countries. While we are enjoying the technology being offered by digitized countries, it is getting dragged out by the not so digitized companies in other countries. We can be all digitized but may not be successful after all because other countries are not ready for the digital revolution.
The problems we create by being digital affects largely our work life balance. We waste so much time when we are supposed to minimize time spent. Therefore, we have to be careful, set our priorities and know that all these should not affect how we manage our work life balance. The way we manage sensitive information is a challenge as well. In the digital world, we are open to hackers. We have the duty to protect sensitive information.
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Rebecca Visperas 