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Technology & Work Related Inequities

• Reflect on this week's resources and the role of technology in easing/exacerbating work related issues. Integrate the findings of two scholarly articles to connect your experience within broader context of work related inequities. Compare and contrast your experience with your findings. Be sure to address the widening digital divide when you analyze the role of technology in easing/exacerbating work related inequities.

These are the learning outcomes for week 4. Upon successful completion of the work this week, you will be able to:

Question 1. Identify how technology has changed work.

Question 2. Analyze the role of technology in easing/exacerbating work related inequities.

Question 3. Evaluate how technology has blurred the lines between personal and professional life.

Technological Change

• Technology refers to any device that helps people to perform labor more efficiently, more easily, and more productively. The device usually is a human-made article, but can also be a work strategy or organizational system.
• While most people today equate technology with computing and communications equipment, including smart phones, electronic tablets, and the like, an organizational system that increases productivity, such as the assembly line developed in the early twentieth century to produce automobiles. Today, the assembly line has given way to robots that assemble cars, a technological change that has increased productivity further.