Smartphones have positively impacted productivity, communication, social engagement, and education according to research. Studies show that many employees and students now use smartphones to access work emails, complete tasks, and stay connected outside of regular hours. This increased accessibility has boosted productivity for some. However, smartphones can also enable issues like workaholism if not balanced with communication policies. Overall, while smartphones may introduce some negatives like distraction or overwork, their benefits of convenient access to information, communication, and social networks seem to outweigh these downsides for now.

1. PRESANTATION BY TAPIWANASHE DENNIS CHIMINYA23150467

2. Question:“Research has found that smart phones are affecting productivity, communication in the work place, social engagement, and have an effect in education”. Do you agree with this statement?

3. Smart phones, what are they?These are special phones with computer capabilities like the internet access, email, Windows Mobile software, music player and other different applications.

4. Examples Of Smart phones

5. General Positive Effects of Smart phones productivity, communication in the work place, social engagement and in education:Portable (Easy to carry wherever you may be)

6. Easy access to information.

7. Its cheaper to even set up compared to alternative access devices like Personal computers.

8. The word “Weisure” has been introduced by experts which is a mixture of the work time and the leisure time.

9. This increases the work time hence productivity is also positively.Effects of smart phones on productivity and communication in the workplace.Based on the article entitled “Mobile Corporation SA 2010”70% of employees with smart phones regularly check their email outside normal business hours;

10. 42% of employees access business email accounts while at home or on sick leave; and

11. 43% of employees connect to their email on smart phones in order to get ahead and ease their workloads for the next working day.Ways to ensure positive influence with the use of smart phones in the workplace:ensuring they have expanding acceptance usage and communication policies to encompass smart phone applications;

12. addressing situations where employees may copy and remove confidential information using a smart phone’s camera or Bluetooth TM capabilities;