Employee monitoring is the act of monitoring employee activity. Organizations engage in employee
monitoring to track performance, avoid legal liability, protect trade secrets, and address other
security concerns. The practice may impact employee satisfaction due to its impact on privacy.
Because of the Internet and the ability to communicate with the company network from anywhere in the world,
many workers now work part time or full time from home.
Employee Advantages:Flexible working hours Work around family obligations (young children, elderly parents) Can take a break during
the day (walk the dog or catch the news) Save lots of time on traveling to and from work Save lots of fuel and parking costs Saves on
global warming to some extent Collaboration is easy with internet connection
Disadvantages:Always on call Harder to separate work from home life Work even longer hours Can be harder to be
motivated No work colleagues to have a laugh with Career prospects may be affected
There is no fixed definition of teleworking, but the essential feature is the use of information technology to enable
people to work away from the office. This could apply to people working full time or part-time at home, those
dividing their time between home and the office, and mainly mobile workers who use their home as an
administrative base. It is estimated that the average person spends around 4 hours travelling to work each week.
That is a lot of time sitting in a car or train! So why isn't teleworking more popular?
Mail merge and macros
Mail merge is a process to create personalized letters and
pre-addressed envelopes or mailing labels mass mailings from a form
letter – a word processing document which contains fixed text, which
will be the same in each output document, and variables, which act
as placeholders that are replaced by text from the data source.
Many programs allow you to create macros so that you can enter a single character or word to
perform a whole series of actions. Suppose, for example, that you are editing a file and want to
indent every third line five spaces. If your word processor supports macros, you can create one
that consists of the following keystrokes:
The Internet, intranets, and extranets
The internet
A vast computer network linking smaller computer networks worldwide. The Internet
includes commercial, educational, governmental, and other networks, all of which use the same set of
communications protocols.
Intranet
a vast computer network linking smaller computer networks worldwide (usually preceded by the). The Internet
includes commercial, educational, governmental, and other networks, all of which use the same set of
communications protocols.
Extranet
An intranet that is partially accessible to authorized persons outside of a company or organization.
Supermarket technology
Automatic Checkout
Australian grocery chain Coles is working with IBM to install radio tags
on grocery items that could be read as you leave the shop, with the bill
paid via smartphone from your credit card. Now that would really cut
down on checkout time!
Scanning Without Barcodes
Toshiba has created a new scanner that recognizes any item in the store,
meaning barcodes are not necessary. The object recognition system uses
pattern and color recognition to identity the product, including fruits and
vegetables, and variations of fruit like red delicious apples.
Fuel Rewards
Many supermarkets across the country now reward shoppers with discounts on gas
based on how much they spend at the grocery store. For example, Stop & Shop
rewards $0.10 per gallon savings at Shell for every $100 spent. Some chains have
introduced specials to lower gas prices even further. In April, for example, Spartan
Stores ran a two-day deal offering .50 cents off a gallon, up to 20 gallons, for every
$100 spent in its stores. Usually a shopper would have to spend $500 to earn these
savings.
Supermarket Mobile Apps
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Many chains have introduced their own mobile apps with several useful shopping features. TheWegmans mobile app, for example, lets you scan a barcode on a product and automatically add it to your shopping list. It also features recipes and the ability to add the ingredients directly to your list. Weis Markets mobile app lets you view the weekly circular, and create and email a list to someone else. The Android version lets shoppers use their voice to add items to the list. With the new Harris Teeter mobile app, an enhanced store locator adds GPS technology and driving directions. Shoppers can also view their shopping lists offline and integrate them with their desktop shopping list. The application even provides text message notification and the ability to pre-order subs and sliced meats and cheeses in select stores.
Supermarket Mobile Apps are applications that let you buy different items online with your phone,
computer, tablet, or other device. This is called Mobile Marketing
Mobile marketing is marketing that takes place via mobile devices such as smart phones, tablets or
PDAs. Mobile marketing makes use of features of modern mobile technology such as location services
to tailor marketing campaigns based on a customer's location or frequently visited places. Mobile
marketing is a way in which technology can promote personalized goods or services to a user who is
constantly connected to a network via their mobile device.
Locating Products
Aisle411 empowers anyone with a mobile phone to find products within retail stores. Easily find the in-store aisle
location of a single item or route your entire shopping list on a mobile map of your store. Aisle 411 works in
hundreds of stores around the country. The best part: No more aimless searching.
Spreadsheets
What is a spreadsheet? A spreadsheet is a piece of software which is used to work out calculations.
they can do a whole lot more than simply add up a column of numbers.bar chart Spreadsheets can
handle all of the financial calculations for a large business, they can be used to work with statistics
and to calculate probability or other statistical information, they can do complex trigonometry. Not
only that, they can also make pretty snazzy graphs and charts that you can use to impress people.
Spreadsheets can also be used as a simple flat-file database. But, at the end of the day, a
spreadsheet really is just a glorified calculator - albeit a pretty amazing one!
Banking: digital payment
Payment done in a digital form
Online Businesses
E-commerce
E-commerce (electronic commerce or EC) is the buying and selling of goods and services, or the
transmitting of funds or data, over an electronic network, primarily the internet. These business
transactions occur either as business-to-business, business-to-consumer, consumer-to-consumer or
consumer-to-business.
E-commerce: C2C
Consumer to consumer (or citizen-to-citizen) electronic commerce involves the electronically facilitated
transactions between consumers through some third party. A common example is the online auction,
in which a consumer posts an item for sale and other consumers bid to purchase it; the third party
generally charges a flat fee or commission. C2C marketing is the creation
of a product or service with the specific promotional strategy being for consumers to share that
product or service with others as brand advocates based on the value of the product.
Running an online business
Consumer data and advertising
Consumer data is the information trail customers leave behind as a result of their Internet use. This data, which
sometimes comprises personal information, comes from such sources and channels as social media networks,
marketing campaigns, customer service requests, call center communications, online browsing data, mobile
applications, purchasing history and preferences, and more.
Advertising is a means of communication with the users of a product or service. Advertisements are messages paid
for by those who send them and are intended to inform or influence people who receive them
Web design
Web design is the process of creating websites. It encompasses several different aspects, including webpage layout,
content production, and graphic design. While the terms web design and web development are often used
interchangeably, web design is technically a subset of the broader category of web development.
E-marketing
E-Marketing (Electronic Marketing) are also known as Internet Marketing.
E-marketing is the process of marketing a product or service using the Internet.
E-marketng not only includes marketing on the Internet, but also includes
marketing done via e-mail and wireless media. It uses a range of technologies to
help connect businesses to their customers.
Travel sites
A travel website is a website on the world wide web that is dedicated to travel. The site may be focused on travel
reviews, trip fares, or a combination of both.
Package tracking
the process of localizing shipping containers, mail and parcel post at different points of time during sorting,
warehousing, and package delivery to verify their provenance and to predict and aid delivery.
Transportation
Smart cars
An automobile with advanced electronics
Full body scanners
A device used in some airports and train stations that creates an image of a person's naked body through their
clothing to look for hidden objects without physically removing their clothes or making physical contact.
Traffic control
systems
refers to the methods and measures used to prevent users from being killed or seriously injured in a traffic accident
Vehicle tracking
A vehicle tracking system combines the use of automatic vehicle location in individual vehicles with software that
collects these fleet data for a comprehensive picture of vehicle locations.
Driver
monitoring
is a vehicle safety system first introduced by Toyota in 2006 for its and Lexus latest models. The system uses infrared
sensors to monitor driver attentiveness.
If the driver is not paying attention to the road ahead and a dangerous situation is detected, the system will warn
the driver by flashing lights, warning sounds. If no action is taken, the vehicle will apply the brakes