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1.      Creating a smart workplace using IT

Information Technology is a vital topic in this century and because of it organizations able to make smart workplaces where more flexible and easy to work (Cancel, 2018). Moreover, because this smart workplace with IT makes the employees work from different locations as teams. Multinational firms mostly face cultural differences issues in the organizations, but working at home or different locations makes these problems less and employees can get easily integrated. Social enterprise platforms and communication tools make it more efficient and productive.

 Collaborative editing documents, universal access to emails, and live collaboration tools make it easier for the employees. All these smart workplaces make employees work from home and that leads to efficiency and effectiveness (McCallum, 2020). 

That leads to less cost for the organization on administrative and maintenance. Moreover, this makes the safety of the employees. When companies work like this it makes employees and other corporate users understand and improve knowledge of the applications and systems. When creating a smart workplace using IT, it is important to safeguard the organization’s systems from malfunctions and unethical accesses (Irina Farquhar, 2007). When the workplace becomes digitalized, it makes the organization improve an eco-friendly work environment as well as efficiency.

 The internet of Things helps in building this work like this (Lok, 2015). When creating a workplace into a smart workplace, it is important to ensure whether employees have their knowledge to cope with this technology and whether they like this change. Unless it will be a frustration, wasting time, and make conflicts and grievances in the workplace.

 To make the employees aware of the technology and the digitalized system, the organization needs to provide workshops to their employees. If there are employees who do not like these changes, the organization should concern about them and find the solutions to make them adaptive to the environmental changes. 

When working smart, it is important to increase the trust of the employees and it leads to get appropriate decisions, responsible choices, and act as more mature individuals. Moreover, it is crucial to evaluate how this change affects the organization, and after evaluating, if there are negative consequences, it is needed to give solutions to make it positive rather than going back to old traditional working place.



Comments

  1. Janashi LamahewaApril 18, 2021 at 10:41 AM

    Smart work place is a timely topic and most of the organizations are in trend of converting their work forces into smart workforces with the Covid 19 outbreak. Author has well described the topic. As per the author smart work force is a boom for employers. According to Buchanan, 2019 it has also changed the power balance in the employer-employee relationship. My point of view is it can reduce employee focus in some levels towards their job targets because of the ability to work from anywhere and stay connected through smart phones, tablets, and other mobile devices.
    Article is well written and worth to read.

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  2. Ruwan HerathApril 19, 2021 at 9:29 AM

    A smart workplace is the use of technology to connect and engage employees with their work environment. It is enabled through a connection of networked platforms, software and technologies.
    Smart / digital workplace allows easier access to virtual meetings and removes the barriers of time, location, devices and network connections, it provides employees greater work-life balance while increasing productivity and agility for the organization.

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  3. ShriApril 20, 2021 at 11:17 PM

    With IT, the smart workplace is a topical topic and with the explosion of Covid 19 many organizations have a tendency to transform their workforce into smart workforce. The author seems to have studied the facts with great interest. The ability to work from anywhere and connect via smart phones, tablets, and other mobile devices is well worth the point, as this ability to reduce employees' focus on job goals to some degree is appropriate.

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  4. Vishwa RathnayakeApril 30, 2021 at 7:22 PM

    Smart working can be defined as one kind of empowerment relationship settled by agreement between the parties , ororganized through phase , cycle and goales and with out any schedule or place constraints with the possibility or using technological tools to work

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  5. R SAJEEVMay 1, 2021 at 10:14 AM

    The work environment is changing. Advances in technology, a shift in generation and changes in the way companies do business have driven the need and demand for a new kind of workplace. These factors have led to the rise of the “smart workplace”. Many companies have redesigned and digitalised their workplace, but this is only a part of the journey. They have to create a total solution that has successfully enhanced employee productivity, engagement and performance. Companies are also having to manage the expectations of a more diverse workforce, while at the same time clearly communicating their culture and values.

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