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Introduction

Technology grows so fast and its progress brings out many influences, especially in the use of time, such as the simplicity and the efficiency. Today, professionally, technology is highly needed. Without it, the professional people cannot do their job well. Things like computer, phone, plane, and car are needed to run their businesses.

Introduction

Technology grows so fast and its progress brings out many influences, especially in the use of time, such as the simplicity and the efficiency. Today, professionally, technology is highly needed. Without it, the professional people cannot do their job well. Things like computer, phone, plane, and car are needed to run their businesses.

Introduction

Over the last two decades, our lives have been slowly taken over by technology. Take a moment to look around you. How many screens do you see? Did you include the one you’re reading this on?

Our Wi-Fi-enabled gadgets have changed the way we work, play, and even raise our children. Today’s offices would be unrecognizable to workers of the past thanks to the proliferation of emails, video conferencing, tablets, laptop computers, and other relatively recent innovations.

New technologies in professional life

"Technology has forever changed the world we live in."

James Comey

New technologies in professional life

There are very few parts of life that remain untouched by technology in one way or another. From medicine to autonomous cars, we’re advancing at breakneck speed, and in many ways, our lives are greatly improved because of it. In the workplace, advances in technology allow us to work in new ways that weren’t possible in the past.

Here are some of the ways the positive impact of technology has in general helped thousands around the world change the way business gets done :

New technologies in professional life

Communication platforms

One of the positive effects of technology is the ease with which we can communicate with one another. With an entire suite of communication tools found on a single, pocket-sized device, it’s easier than ever to get in touch with just about anyone these days, no matter where in the world they may be.

New technologies in professional life

New Jobs

Even while technologies replace some jobs, they are creating new work in

industries that most of us

cannot even imagine, and

new ways to generate

income.

New technologies in professional life

The net impact of new technologies on employment can be strongly positive. A 2011 study by McKinsey’s Paris office found that the Internet has destroyed 500,000 jobs in France in the previous 15 years—but at the

same time has created 1.2 million others, a

net addition of 700,000, or 2.4 jobs created

for every job destroyed !

The teaching profession

The teaching profession, as many others, has been touched by the huge advancement and development of technology.

Indeed, new technologies have eased teachers' professional life, and improved it, whether it is on facilitating communication with students, or lessons.

Interview of a Teacher

We'are extremely glad to propose an interview about the high importance of the new technologies in the harmony of work.

In this interview we asked a history teacher about the way that new technologies successfully made his professional life and work environment easier :

Interview of a Teacher

How did new technologies improve your professionnal life ?

New technologies have facilitate our life and our job by many ways :

Firstly, the new interactive board set by the shool is an amazing and great way to my mind to make students more concentrate and maybe more confident, because this new generation is more comfortable with technologies like these in our days.

Plus this solution is really helpful because student can interact with the teacher by a way easier and more convenient for them.

Interview of a Teacher

Secondly, thanks to these technologies, I am able to find for example, as many pictures of the world war two as I need, and project them at any time to my students.

It only takes me a few clicks, but it is really interesting for the students ; instead of the usual and nonrepresentative lines and words that they used to have as lessons, students can now enjoy real pictures of what really happened, something which will by the way highly increase their willingness to learn.

The accounting profession

The accounting profession, like many others, is undergoing a significant transformation as the proliferation of mobile and cloud technology makes it easier to enhance productivity, facilitate client relationships and open the door to expand capabilities and services.

Now please allow us to show you the following interview of an accountant, which is a job that the new technologies have incredibly facilitated over the last decades.

How does technology enhance productivity in the accounting profession ?

- Accountants Have Tools That Reduce the Margin of Error, called accounting software.

Interview of an accountant

What is an accounting software?

Accounting software gathers under the same roof all systems and applications dedicated to managing and processing financial data. Accounting professionals and bookkeeping teams use these programs to govern accounts and automate systematic operations, while certain systems are also enabled to record accounting data, measure indicators, and report on the company’s financial activity.

Interview of an accountant

Accountants will need to embrace the rapid advances in accounting technology if they want to remain relevant in the accounting industry. This includes staying up-to date with technological trends, optimizing and adapting current accounting software to meet the needs of their firm, and being open to accepting and learning advancing technologies.

Some Apps...

In the business world, people don't only resort to specific applications and softwares according to their jobs, but they also use a bunch of other new technologies which do not require any particular skills and make professional life more reachable and easy.

For example there's Doodle, which is an application that radically simplifies the process of scheduling events, meetings, appointments.

In fact, each user has access to his colleague's schedule, and that's how both can easily find the perfect moment to meet, depending upon everybody's availabilities. Thereby, organizing meeting has never been such easy !

The lightweight feedback system that spawned a management revolution :

15Five

The lightweight feedback system that spawned a management revolution on one application : 15Five

Employees take 15 minutes

a week to answer questions.

Managers spend 5 minutes

to read and comment on responses.

Feedback travels up the ladder through all levels of management

Conclusion

The world, and the workplace, has experienced

significant technological progress over the past

century, but we’re

on the cusp of even

greater

technological

development.

While we may not always

see the immediate value of some technology or its application in the workplace, if we embrace technological change and approach new ideas with an open mind, the workforce is sure to benefit.

Conclusion

To be a truly effective employer is to be a forward-thinking one, which means staying up to date on the way people work (or will be working) and critically assessing how one technological shift can affect the entire employee lifecycle.