The Impact of ICT on an Adult Employment

The Impact of ICT on an Adult Employment

In this report I will identify the needs of Mavis Ingham and the

technologies she uses in the work place. She works for H.L.Boultons

and sons L.T.D. as a secretary. She has to answer phones, send faxes,

sort out wages, and do all the paper work, the business is also a farm

and so she has to sort out cattle movements and records.

In her work she has to use the computer, fax machine, phones, mobile

phones, satellite navigation and the photocopiers.

COMPUTER

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The computer is a necessity. A computer is a device, which enables

the user to do many different things, type letters, do sums, save

information e.t.c this is built around a microprocessor. They also

include a CPU (the brain of the computer), memory (storage device),

RAM (temporary storage), ROM (long term storage), and more.

The computer stores all the information about how many hours each

employee has worked, the orders, the cash flow of the business as well

as all the company details. Mavis uses a Packard Bell 293 GHZ (clock

speed) with 256mb RAM (random access memory), it is internet ready,

but due to the difficult location it is not internet connected.

The company operates with Sage Business accounts, a software package

which enables them to do all their invoicing, costing and keep sales

and suppliers records

The computer helps minimize the stressful “paper work” of the

business, this would take much longer to complete and would become a

stressful task if not for the computer!

The disadvantages are that you have to type all the information you

need and if you don’t save your work and the system crashes you don’t

have back up! The software package is basic and not always able to do

what is required. Mavis is the only operative and if not available

information is not accessible.

The advantages are that you cannot really loose files if you have back

up copies. Discs are much easier to store than hardcopies, with the