Working from home is beneficial to the women in terms of coping with the lack of flexibility in performance, attendance and reward measures that is in place at the formal work environment (Gregg, 2013). Although working from home has its benefits, it also has some disadvantages. One of the major disadvantages is that the employees end up working more for little pay. In most cases, the employees given huge workloads and they end up working till late in the night. This is an indication that working from home ends up consuming the time that the women or individuals should be using for their personal life issues.
This has resulted to a concept that is known as presence bleed. The re ate no formal policies with regards to the use of media assemblage and this has negative impacts on the workers. The workers have to work way beyond their paid hours in order to complete the tasks that has been allocated to them. The employees therefore end up being exploited without their knowledge. This is because the disadvantages are overshadowed by the advantages that they enjoy. The efforts of the employees may not be recognized by the company when the employees work from home (Gregg, 2013).
This includes the long working hours and huge workloads that they are subjected to. It is therefore evident that the merits of working from homes is time saving. This enables the women to carry out other chores at home while working. However, its demerits are on exhaustion of women leading to reduced productivity and inefficiencies. This is as a result of the huge workloads as well as long working hours. The second example is that communication technology creates a social contact burden for many people.
This is as a result of the influence that it has on the private life of the people. The communication technology mainly involves the use of emails, Facebook, Twitter and other social media networks (Pahlavan, 2011). In the modern world the communication technology is widely used and it is considered professional to use the communication technology. In a work environment, an employee may find it difficult not to use the communication technology as other employees could be using it. The companies are also increasingly using the communication technology in their organization.
The use of communication technology such as email has created a burden to most people as they have to check their emails from time to time. Failing to do so may be considered unprofessional or it can be concluded that the individual ignored the emails. This is common in a work environment as most companies use emails to contact their employees. This has created a huge burden among the employees. The use of the social media has also created a burden among people. Social media is seen as tool for communication as well socializing.
As a result of this most people are to visiting their social media page from time to time in order to chat with their friends or workmates. Meeting new people and obtaining new ideas is increasingly becoming an important aspect of the social media (Gregg, 2013). As a result of this a lot of time is spend on social media. Employees working in an office may end up spending a lot of time chatting on social media during the working hours (Manochehri, Al-Esmail & Ashrafi, 2012). This has negative impacts on their productivity as well as their efficiency.
It is also an indication that the work-life balance is affected by the communications technology. Most of the people spend a lot of their private time on social media. This therefore creates a lot of burden considering that resources are also used. Communication technology has also resulted to addiction among some of the people. Addiction to social media is on the increase and this has seen some of the people spending a lot of time on social media. Some stay till late in the night while chatting.
Addiction is also an indication that the social media is becoming a burden to most people. Online presence monitoring is also a concepts that has been introduced by some of the organization to in order to know whether the employees are online or not (Treem & Leonardi, 2012).
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