How often do you walk on to a large floor in corporate premises to see many people working in complete silence. All these individuals are staring at their screens some are writing documents or coding programmes or processing data. Many are responding, reading and creating e-mails; probably to those on the same floor perhaps?
The modern office is becoming a lonely place! Is this efficient communication or social ineptitude. A conversation results in interaction, creative and productive in nature.
Taking 20 minutes to carefully construct a mail by each individual in the chain of communication, to avoid offence, when a few minute conversation will do the same is much more effective and indeed healthy.
Come on lets Talk!its much more productive.
An office where there is lots going on is a creative place, a floor full of screen ghouls is depressing and dull.
Whats your office like?
A non business example of technology affecting sociability is freshers at university.
ReplyDeleteA friend of my daughter started at Uni. in September and for the first few weeks many freshers were shut away in their rooms in hall using facebook with the old network of friends back at home or themselves freshers in other academic institutions.
Instead of making an effort making new friends facebook was used as a social prop and comfort blanket to the new environment.
The discussion we all had came to the conclusion that this was a recent phenomena caused by the rise in the popularity of social networking. Although social networks keep people in touch they also can create social isolation and remove the old fashioned human interaction.