IELTS Writing!

Many workers began to work from home

 

because of modern technology. Employees

 

think it just benefits employers. To what extent

 

do you agree or disagree?

 

 

   Telecommuting is no more a hertige for the predecessors. In fact, large number of employees and employersㅡmostly working in foreign firmsㅡutilize this system to maximize flexibility of working hours. Introducing this system aroused exorbitant responses from the media, exaggerating telecommuting as 'a new epoch of modern technology.' Ostensibly, the system itself appears to be impeccable. In theory, by telecommuting, people can save commuting hours; nothing new to say, working at home will be more suitable for the employee which will lead to enhancing efficiency. Did telecommuting, however, bringabout overall increase in work efficiencyㅡthe essential reason most companies adopted the system?  I do consent the benefit of telecommuting that helped working more comfortable. Having said that, the premise that telecommuting will build working efficiecy is far from clear. First of all, it lacks concentration of those who telecommuteㅡdiminishing efficiency. In parenthesis, limitation of modern technology hinder telecommuting to be work efficient.

 

   To start up with, telecommuting prevents people from concentrating which leads to less work efficiency. Dwindling commuting hours solely is not always virtuous. Soft bed and couch that entice you every second you feel idle; home is full of snacks with fat scrumptious enough to put you to sleep. Working at home have every aspect for you to loose concentration. Some can assert that the aforementioned case doesn't fit them, nevertheless, the statistics shows telecommuting decreases concentration for most of the people. Harvard University made an research on scrutinizing the relevance between telecommuting and concentration. Unfortunately, 86.5% of employees who telecommute lacked concentration.   Furthermore, hardly it is possible to loose concentration when working at the job. Bosses are like an pan=opticon, readily prepared to torture you every second you become lax. To top it off, competitors are right next to you working ardently to achieve their landslide victory. In this atmosphere there is no slight chance that employees will be untidy. There is actually a theory that proves this. 'Hawthrone Affect'ㅡwhen people are besides their boss or their co-workers, their work efficiency enhances by 42%ㅡsupports that working at the company is better than being stuck in ones' enclave.

 

   Additionally, evident it is that more work-inefficiency the telecommuting will bringabout inefficiency due to constraint of modern technology. Working in a organization, one can never make their own decisions. If it is imperative, they have to make a proposal.  It is undoubtful that a bosses' proof signatureㅡwhich means that the boss have seen the 'paper'and he/she agrees with itㅡ is indispensable. It must never be printed onto the proposal owing to the possibility of fabrication. Simply put, it must be hand-signed. The problem is this: due to limitation of modern technology, the employee who telecommute will have to go to work everytime he/she makes an proposal. How ironical it is to see that person who telecommute have the potentialities to commute more often than those who work at the company. Also, when telecommuting, employees can not figure out who is currently working or not. When working in the firm, working hour is usually fixed. Owing to the resilient working hour of telecommuting, however, various problems can be induced. Let's assume the an urgent matter arose, for instance, and a boss needs an employee to settle this atrocity. However dire for help he may be, there is no employee to witness this imminency since they are individually in a different space; nor will it be hard for the employer to make certain employee to solve this problem because the employer doesn't know who is at work! Deliberating these aforementioned factors, it is likely to draw a reasonable linchpin:  telecommuting is never work efficient.

 

   To reiterate, I favor the merits of telecommuting which is previously noted; however, more disadvantages lie in telecommuting. Conspicuously, telecommuting lowers work efficiency by reducing concentration and it's limit in technology. Maybe, in the near future, cutting-edge technology may obviate the demerits I described. To illustrate, with the technology of eliminating the division of time and space, we may be working at our enclaves while at the same time, working in a 3 dimensional room where employees can still see each other; growing competence against each other which will curtail the possibility of becoming negligent. Employees need not waste time commuting since they can get a hand-signed proposal in the 3D spaceㅡnot throwing away time. If fulfilled, then I may become an apologist to telecommuting, but not yet.