Technology- Apple Watch Series 3

Wouldn’t it be nice if you accidentally left you phone at home, but could still get calls and texts from say.. your watch?... Now you can! Apple Watch Series 8 has gone cellular. It has the capabilities of making and receiving calls, text messages, email notifications, app alerts, it can give you directions, streams 40 million songs from apple music and even has siri there in case you have any questions for her as well. The best part is that the watch is waterproof. No more worrying about dropping your phone in the toilet or the sink because you don’t even need to take it with you! Why is the apple watch series 3 important for professional communication? Isn’t having a phone enough?

 Research indicates that Americans work A LOT!! In fact, we work too much, and definitely more than neighboring countries.  In the U.S., 85.8 percent of males and 66.5 percent of females work more than 40 hours per week. Most of these adults have families and responsibilities at home to worry about in addition to their heavy workload as well. The United States is the only industrialized country that has no legally mandatory annual leave. In most countries workers get at least 20 paid vacation days. While in France and Finland, they get an entire month of paid vacation time every year. A whole month! Then there’s the U.S. with a measly 13 days of paid time off per year. The facts tell us that many Americans are constantly in business mode with not much time left for anything else.

From a communication standpoint the heavy workload and long hours of employees make the convenience of the apple watch series 3 ideal. Since the watch is waterproof and can essentially act as a phone even if they do not have their phone with them employees can be reached no matter where they are or what they are doing. If an employee is on call for work there is no stress about whether or not they will get the call in a timely manner because it will go right on their wrist. If an employer feels the need to reach out to an employee for any reason at any time of day the chances of reaching them increase dramatically when that employee has an apple watch series 3. If they go for a morning swim they can still get a message from their boss telling them to pick up donuts for the meeting that morning.

The apple watch increases the amount of communication an employer can have with their employee. For better or for worse the employee is going to start having less and less excuse for a slow response time, or ignorance about work related things. This is because employees will no longer be able to say they did not see the message as it is on their wrist. Though we talked about how American’s work too much and don’t get any time to rest, the fact is that a lot of Americans choose this lifestyle. They love their job and want to be connected at all times. The apple watch is a great way to do that. Additionally, for parents who are working over 40 hours per week the ability to keep in touch with their children, and receive updates even while in important meetings can be important. This can of course all be done via the apple watch series 3. In the near future I think we will see a lot more people talking into their wrists at their watch than their phone. More people will be seen walking the streets with their wrist to their face reading messages or noticing an alert, and less people with phones in their hand. The apple watch series 3 can really have an impact for helping to create an even more closely connected world even more so than with using phone technology on its own.

With all of that being said I do feel that though the amount of communication and the convenience of that is improved through the apple watch professional communication is lacking. I think if employers begin using the apple watch as a means of communicating more quickly and more often with an employee rather than having more formal face-to face discussions the number of people who actually know how to have an effective face-to-face conversation with another human will go down even more so than it undoubtedly has through the use of other technologies. 

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