New technology stealing jobs

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Introduction

In today’s world, everything is getting more accessible and convenient because of the developing technology across all sectors (The causes of unemployment, 1983). Despite its benefits, technology disadvantages human workforce by creating unemployment because machines are eliminating the need for labourers.

Managers Perception

According to the managers of the Canadian Crown Corporation, several windows of opportunities are opening for the enterprises due to the current advancement in technology. The enormous widening of intelligent capabilities through development of technology is reshaping the established operations of crown firms by paving routes for disruption of excessive dependency on massive labour force (Rifkin, 1995). Therefore, by enhancing and leveraging their labour assets, crown managers are gathering an insight on the use of technology, instead of labour, as a smart entrepreneurial decision, which is a far much reliable and a better option.

Employees View

According to the affected secretaries, advancing technology is not necessary because it ends up undermining the growth of the economy. This is because it creates a huge number of dependents and facilitates deterioration of moral ethics since technology is a factory that produces thieves out of innocent citizens. In fact, destroying secretary jobs means that many of us will engage in criminal activities as an alternative means of survival. Undoubtedly, technology requires employees to learn new skills in order to adapt to change. This is hard, especially for the older-generation secretaries.

Government as a stakeholder

Canadian crown corporations advances in technology show that companies have more reliable means of doing secretarial duties with better results (Rifkin, 1996). Therefore, let us devise new techniques of developing our own jobs instead of undermining technology. For instance, we should appreciate machines which will permit for intense and faster operation in Canadian crown firms with reduced level of human fraud and increased production, which will ultimately boost the Gross national income of Canada. In addition, technologies will make secretaries to be more innovative, and productive since some of them will implement new development ideas which will make more society independent through their gains.

For example

Canadian crown corporations which comprise of crown owned enterprises eliminate the need of more than one million secretaries from the market within a period of ten years. Secretarial jobs were shattered by designing of software which allowed bosses to arrange and call for meetings without necessarily using secretaries. At the same time, telephone operators within the company plunged by sixty percent, typist and word processors by sixty one percent, bookkeepers by twenty percent and travelling agents by forty percent. According to Jeremy, there will be a workerless globe in which individuals shall be free to live a utopian life and this will polarise economy and upgrade poor conditions of living.

Conclusion

There is no doubt that technology has transformed the manner in which the world conducts business (Rifkin, 1995). Correspondences which ever took long time to move from one institution to another are now delivered within a short time, often with the help of a click of a button. However, despite the fact that the various merits of integrating modern technology in businesses, it is important to note that technology continues to eliminate jobs leading to an increased number of unemployment.

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