2. Effect of ICT on Patterns of Employment The personal computer was developed in1980. Before this date, computers were huge and expensive. Now PCs are found on almost every desk in every office, all over the world. Because companies now have access to so much cheap, reliable computing power, they have changed the way they are organised and the way they operate. Some people lost their jobs as a result of computers being used to do the same work that people used to do.
3. Effect on increased unemployment Effect on increased employment IT technicians Computer programmers Web designers Help-desk staff Manufacturing Secretarial work Accounting clerks Newspaper printing
4. As the time the computers were developed, the owners of many companies don’t need workers anymore because computers can do better jobs, faster and better quality. Unemployment
5. Even the computers were developed but there also must be someone to control the system. Employment
