Work, Workers & Workplaces | Book Review

Title: Work, Workers & Workplaces

Author: Parthajeet Sarma

Pages: 110

‘Work, Workers & Workplaces’ by Parthajeet Sarma shows work, workers & workplaces have evolved over a period of time and how psychology, human evolution and science has an important place in making these drastic changes. We also get to see the role technology plays in advancement of a society, workplace. Basically, technology has been the pivotal part in our society since many years.

The book is divided into three Sections:

Part 1: Briefing the changing nature of work: The definition of work has changed drastically, earlier work used to involve work which was repetitive and not involving creativity but with the introduction of computers at workplaces employees/workforce have to put much emphasis on the creative part as the manual/routine work is mostly handled by computers. Technology has brought about a tremendous change in today’s social media, innovation is the key word, and there is a major shift in services sectors. Now a day, social media is also looked upon for hiring potential candidates/workforce.

Part 2: Why it is important for work spaces to change in line: For a business to grow it is mandatory for the company to adapt to the technological advancement. Companies are slowly being transformed from physical workplace to virtual workplace where people can work from anywhere. We also get to see how perspectives change and how people were first adamant  at using HDTV and how it took nearly thirty years to be accepted by people whereas other technology get easily adopted by people. We also get to see how businesses today are looking to automate all the processes and they don’t want to invest in getting people do the repetitive work, which can be handled by machines and people are looked upon for tasks which machines cannot do.

Part 3: How this change can be implemented at work seamlessly: The question that we need to answer is ‘How do we do it?’ The author tells us how working spaces have changed from a fixed place of work to coffee shops, restaurants, airports and how it is easy to work with the digitalization that has come around due to mobile, free Wi-Fi available at the coffee shops, restaurants, etc. We get to see the two broad factors that are influencing change in people’s lives, the first being technology and the second our social changes. IN short, the author tells us that we should try to keep the workplace relevant and use that as a starting point of innovation .

My Thoughts:

Overall, we get to see how technology has enabled humans to work from coffee shops and also from home hence reducing the need to go to work. The book is filled with great ideas and approaches for understanding how the workplaces actually work and have undergone changes. The book title has been aptly kept; readers will actually get to see how work, workers & workplaces have radically changed. To know more, read Work, Workers & Workplaces.

Rating: 4/5

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