Technology at Workplace
If there is something we have to be used to in our work environment, it is changing. In recent years, technology advances have made us evolve at a dizzying rate. Only people who know how to adapt to these changes will survive in an increasingly competitive work environment.
If you still do not know the new technologies that are revolutionizing your workplace.
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5 Most Important Digital News in the Workplace.
The Cloud
Cloud-based technology has simplified work processes. This tool provides greater flexibility and security since it allows us to make periodic backup copies and recover information in data loss. It also has the benifit that it allows us to access our folders and data from anywhere.
Thanks to this tool, large and small companies benefit from quick access to information, saving costs on hardware and software systems.
Big Data
Big data is the 11th century profession that had already been made clear to us, given the digitization process in which we immerse. it is made up of the large volume of data that floods us today, but, above all. It is beneficial to understand it from a business and organizational point of view.
The important thing about this concept is understanding what companies do with this large volume of information and how they use it to their advantage to have a better strategic vision of the business, thus making the best decisions and achieving optimal results.
Through data analysis, companies can explore variables that lead them, for example, to discover customer trends and improve their marketing strategy.
Big Data, combined with Artificial Intelligence, can be extremely useful in areas such as the health sector, research, study of drugs, or even applied to purchase departments.
Wireless technology
Thanks to wireless technology, workers can connect from anywhere. At home or in a cafeteria, any location is valid to carry out our functions and increase our productivity. Also, the extended use of mobile devices and laptops helps maintain immediate contact with clients and coworkers. In parallel and as an added value, an office with wireless technology also creates a cleaner and wireless atmosphere, with a visual space that favors work.
Video technology
According to a Cisco study, in 2021, the video will represent 70% of Spain’s internet traffic. This data gives us a sample of the great importance of video today and the future. Video use for interviewing, inter-office communication, advertising, brand development, entertainment, etc. Its growth is unstoppable!
Video has also reduced the need to have people working in the same place, which was the mainstay of traditional office culture, and has revolutionized job interviews. It is no longer necessary to see the candidate in person. The profiles can select through a Skype job interview.
Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality
RV and RA are two new technologies that complement each other. But what difference is there between the two? Its main difference, to understand it, is that Augmented Reality works with objects and elements from the real world. That is, this technology allows superimposing virtual elements on the vision of Reality.
On the other hand, Virtual Reality operates in the artificial world, creating an environment of scenes and objects of real appearance, on an artificial environment created by a computer. From a business point of view, RA and VR can access certain brain sensory and emotional areas.
But how will these technologies affect the work environment?
Nowadays, Virtual Reality is present in presentations, talks, or video presentations where the interlocutor can carry out talk in a meeting room without being present. Augmented Reality has a greater impact in industry sectors, where skills and processes can superimpose on the employee’s workplace.
As you can see, technological advances have always had a revolutionary effect in the workplace to facilitate processes and functions, optimizing resources, and increasing productivity.
Knowing how they will affect each of us and to what extent it is difficult. But what we do know is that technological changes are here to stay, as our latest study. The Future of Work shows, which deals with how Artificial Intelligence will affect. Robotics and automation in the workplace of the future.
We have to know how to adapt to them and take advantage of them as our absolute allies.
