People these days use Mobile Phones to do daily activities like communicating with friends and family. Employee's also use Mobile Phones for example Apple employee's use iPhone's to view customers appointments for Computer repairs or lessons.
Advantages
- You can get hold of your colleauges quick and easy
- You can always be contacted
- You can send & receive Emails on a phone.
Disadvantages
- It costs to have a working phone
- You could lose information about appointments.
- You might need training to use a piece of hardware.
- Always contactable so differcult to switch off from work.
Flexibility of working patterns: working from home, working shifts etc.
Flexibility when working from home or working at an office has it's advantages and disadvantages. Working shifts can be useful because you could do a college course and work at the same time is good for your career ahead of you.
Advantages
- You can work from home which is advantages because you can do other tasks in a day for example picking children from school.
Disadvantages
- You can easily get distracted if your working from home
- You could get tired up by doing other tasks in the house,
Easier to source products from all over the world (growth of economics in India and China)
Today you can order anything, from online shopping. This may include items that are made in a different country. You can choose the same items on a different website to check the difference of the prices.
Advantages
- Easy to purchase online
- You can search for different prices.
- You can pre order items to get them as soon as the items release.
- Costs are cheap
- You can make profit from getting materials from different countries
Disadvantages
- You may not get the exact item you wanted
- The item may be a different size.
- It can take a couple of days for it to come through the post.
Machines taking place of number of workers - less need for unskilled labour
People are loosing their jobs very quickly when it comes to labour work for example car manufactures use machines to produce their cars in fast bulks to ship them out to other countries.
Advantages
- For companies they don't have to pay employee's for the labour - saves money.
- It saves time.
Disadvantages
- Less jobs for people that have the experience.
- No jobs for people that have less experience that work in a warehouse.
Easier to set up small business using web
It is easier to set up small business using the web today all you need is a website for example Facebook was just a small website used by college students at the same college as Mark Zuckerberg as it got more popular the idea changed and it became a small business.
Advantages
- You don't have to move away from home.
- You don't have to pay for rent, pay for electricity, etc.
- You can use advertisements to make a revenue.
Disadvantages
- The website is running on a server and it could fail and could result in downtime.
- You could receive spam.
- The website may not reach the right people.
Easier to track consumer spending - marketing
Consumer spending is used by tracking how much consumers are spending and they use this to combine other data by generating bigger sales for the company.
Advantages
- All data is online and could be backed up which mean no loss of data.
- It's quick and easy, you don't have to search through papers files.
- It gets updated regularly
Disadvantages
- You need a computer to access the data.
- It affects the highstreet sales - buying online is cheaper then going in to a shop and it's causing shops to shut down.
How have Ebay, Amazon, LastMinute, iTunes, GoCompare affected the market?
Websites have change the way we buy things when it comes it items, music, insurance & tax. For example when paying for tax on your car you had to go to the post office and pay for it there. Today you can just go on the website and pay through there, you don't have t wait in a queue to pay either. Organisations can make profit by making the the same components but for cheaper price but the difference is they are using different materials.
