Some companies in the U.S. broadcast of the work in Puerto Rico and other Caribbean countries, the companies of Germany - in Luxembourg. At the same time unemployment is increasing and decreasing the number of jobs in the region, but employers are saving a lot of money. Extensive involvement of the sick and disabled, nursing mothers, students and other groups also helps to reduce wages because their labor is less skilled.
Outworker does not come into contact with colleagues or clients, receives no recognition of managers and colleagues. Normal human contacts are in an automated "office of the future" a rarity, violated many decades the emerging patterns of behavior in a group, the relationship managers and employees lose their individuality, a growing sense of dissatisfaction with work. All this leads to an increase in mental disorders, which often translate into acts of vandalism against a computer. When technical means are used not only for work, the problem is exacerbated by social isolation. Here is an example.
Frau Muller sitting home terminal. She sends her friend an e-birthday greetings, directory the travel agency, looking for a suitable trip across the Mediterranean Sea, is processing the documents for the firm NN, controlled by the monitor is asleep in his room, the children watching television adventure, viewing TV newspaper asks a neighbor turn down the volume of the music broadcast, television broadcast includes "How to overcome loneliness?" is on display ads marriage, for the fifth time watching film starring Louis de Funes, pressing opens the door to returning from a walk, taxi, gets in TV chefs advice on menu on Thursday, learns, received a new product to the store and make an order for delivery of their home. Learns in a savings bank, what is the balance on its current account, gives instruction to make a transfer fee for the apartment and the phone, and at bedtime books TV interview the parish priest. Saving time is for Frau Muller stunning. Not only that, for the whole day she did not have to take a single step, did not have to meet with any person, to shake someone's hand. All day long she did not survive anything human - and the "saved" the day of your life!
It is also feared that the house will be given a simple, standardized work. It will not only socially isolating, but very monotonous, and therefore not merely the absence of human contact, but also the nature of the work can not in these circumstances to bring the employee satisfaction. |