Advantages & Disadvantages Of Telecommunication

Disadvantages Of Telecommunication

Telecommunication makes it possible for colleagues and clients to work from a remote location as well as to speed up workflow and communication in the office. Telecommunication for the purposes of telecommuting in particular offers economic benefits, since you save money on parking, transportation, clothing and sometimes childcare. It also may give you flexibility on your work hours and your work setting. Despite these benefits, telecommuting has several significant disadvantages to consider before committing to working away from the office.

Separating Work and Home

o    It's not difficult to fall into the trap of overworking yourself. If you work from home rather than a coffee shop or library, you may find yourself checking emails, working on projects or simply thinking about work well into your "off" time. It may also be difficult to define concrete work hours and avoid distractions at home. Family members or social interruptions may distract you, or you may be tempted to take care of chores and errands around the home, putting off your work until later.

Social Isolation

o    When you telecommute, you get the freedom of less supervision. However, you also may become socially isolated. While some workers thrive on being able to work alone, you may not feel part of a professional community or miss the face to face interaction you get in a traditional office setting. Connect with other telecommuters to avoid isolation. If you're a freelancer, seek out forums, websites and blogs of others in your situation or utilize clients' resources to communicate with others in your industry.

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Inadequate Work Environment

o    When you work in an office, most of the setup is done for you because you're already in an office or cubicle. At home, it's up to you to create an efficient environment specifically for work. It needs to be well-equipped and suit your work needs. Arrange for sufficient Internet connectivity, offering bandwith that adequately handles uploads and video streaming. Install a phone line for faxes and purchase equipment like a fax machine, copier or phone system if needed. If you transcribe or have call center duties, you also need job specific equipment like a transcription pedal or digital calling software. Your employer may provide this to you, but if you're a freelancer, this may not be the case.

Staying Informed

o    If you telecommute in an office where most other employees do not, your company may not have an adequate infrastructure and communication system to keep you abreast. You may not receive interoffice mail in a timely manner, for instance. Conference calls also present problems when poorly managed. Colleagues who aren't aware of call etiquette may speak over one another or forget to mute their phones to eliminate background noise. Ask your employer or client what infrastructure they have in place to assure proper communication.

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4.     Telecommunication is communication at a distance by technological means, particularly through electrical signals or electromagnetic waves.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

5.     Early telecommunication technologies included visual signals, such as beacons, smoke signals, semaphore telegraphs, signal flags, and optical heliographs.^[7] Other examples of pre-modern telecommunications include audio messages such as coded drumbeats, lung-blown horns, and loud whistles. Electrical and electromagnetic telecommunication technologies include telegraph, telephone, and teleprinter, networks, radio, microwave transmission, fiber optics, communications satellites and the Internet.

6.     A revolution in wireless telecommunications began in the 1900s with pioneering developments in radio communications by Nikola Tesla and Guglielmo Marconi. Marconi won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1909 for his efforts. Other highly notable pioneering inventors and developers in the field of electrical and electronic telecommunications includeCharles Wheatstone and Samuel Morse (telegraph), Alexander Graham Bell (telephone),Edwin Armstrong, and Lee de Forest (radio), as well as John Logie Baird and Philo Farnsworth (television).

7.     The world's effective capacity to exchange information through two-way telecommunication networks grew from 281 petabytes of (optimally compressed) information in 1986, to 471 petabytes in 1993, to 2.2 (optimally compressed) exabytes in 2000, and to 65 (optimally compressed) exabytes in 2007.^[8] This is the informational equivalent of two newspaper pages per person per day in 1986, and six entire newspapers per person per day by 2007.^[9]Given this growth, telecommunications play an increasingly important role in the world economy and the global telecommunications industry was about a $4.7 trillion sector in 2012.^[10][11] The service revenue of the global telecommunications industry was estimated to be $1.5 trillion in 2010, corresponding to 2.4% of the world’s gross domestic product(GDP).^[10]