Impacts on Employment
This term describes the constant creation of new jobs while old ones are eliminated due to advancing technology.
What is job churn?
Hybrid work became the dominant model after this global event proved many jobs could function without physical presence.
What is COVID-19?
A common negative effect of offshoring is that workers in the home country may face this impact on employment.
What is job loss?
This type of online content, such as racist remarks or references to drugs, can lead employers to reject a job applicant during social media screening.
What is inappropriate or offensive material?
During this 19th-century revolution, workers destroyed machinery out of fear that it would replace their jobs.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This historical shift moved work away from home and into centralized locations before computers reversed the trend.
What is the Industrial Era?
The goal is lower labor costs, access larger talent pools, or avoid production barriers.
What is the goal of offshoring?
A teacher was fired for a photo of her drinking in a bar, and a deputy sheriff was fired for “liking” a campaign page against his boss. These examples show how this type of employee online behavior can lead to consequences at work.
What is misuse of social media?
While automation can reduce labor needs, it also tends to lower these for consumers, increasing accessibility.
What are the costs of goods and services?
Companies like Amazon, Apple, and Meta have recently enforced this type of policy shift regarding remote work.
What are mandatory in-office attendance requirements?
One major benefit of offshoring for companies is that it allows them to offer support and operations around the clock.
What is enabling 24/7 global operations?
This federal law generally prohibits the interception or reading of emails without a court order but allows employers to read employee communications on company systems.
What is the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA)?
This concept refers to how technological change benefits some groups more than others, widening economic inequality.
What is the digital divide?
This company began tying promotion opportunities to how often employees come into the office, pushing workers back toward in person work.
What is Dell?
Hiring another company to do work, typically abroad, versus moving your own company’s operations to another country.
What is the difference between outsourcing and offshoring?
These monitoring tools, used by trucking companies and hospitals, can increase efficiency but may also intrude on employee privacy and autonomy.
What are location and wearable tracking systems?
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the tech workforce is expected to grow at this rate compared to the overall workforce over the next decade.
What is twice as fast?
In the UK Uber case, drivers were ruled to be working during what time (not just when they had a passenger in the car)?
What is whenever they are logged into the app?
Apple makes most iPhones in China not just for lower labor costs, but because China can quickly provide tens of thousands of these workers.
What are trained manufacturing engineers?
This modern workplace model allows employees to select from approved devices that are securely configured and loaded with company software.
What is the “Choose Your Own Device” (CYOD) model?