Comment technology is intended to benefit the company (Score 1) 344
The fact is that technology is intended to benefit the company rather than the employees. When they make the decision to invest in new technology, the question they ask is whether the investment will be profitable, not whether the employees will like it. If the people who work there are more stressed, that is of little concern to the employers as long as they are more productive.
This is just part of an overall trend in big business to have almost no concern for anything but profit. All aspects of this affect workers' stress. If a company thinks that lay-offs will cut down on costs more than their income, they'll lay people off. If they think that requiring employees to be reachable outside of work will make them more productive, they'll require that.
As long as the stress that workers feel isn't more of a hindrance to work than all these excessive requirements on productivity, they have no reason to change them.
This is just part of an overall trend in big business to have almost no concern for anything but profit. All aspects of this affect workers' stress. If a company thinks that lay-offs will cut down on costs more than their income, they'll lay people off. If they think that requiring employees to be reachable outside of work will make them more productive, they'll require that.
As long as the stress that workers feel isn't more of a hindrance to work than all these excessive requirements on productivity, they have no reason to change them.
