TECHNOLOGY DURING COVID 19: BOON OR A CURSE

Abstract

Coronavirus outbreak has significantly changed how we see work from home (WFH), which is presently a considerably more broadly acknowledged practice. This would appear on a superficial level to be an equalizer move. This paper is an attempt to look at the WFH from academician’s point of view. The virtual method of working is getting progressively well-known because of its potential for cost-savings; it is additionally a route for an association to be more dexterous and adjust to emergencies, for example, worldwide pandemics. Restrictions on movements and closure of offices during Covid-19 forced people to remain confined at home. This along with ample free time made many get accustomed to the Internet in an unprecedented way. When almost every business derailed, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) saw an exponential increase in usage. Thanks to the Internet, office work got done at home.  Until a few years back, having a telephone or mobile, computer, printer, Wi-Fi password and email was a notion of entitlement and social dignity. Even a telephone at residence or mobile with sufficient talk time brought happiness. In spite of having pronounced benefits, the use of ICT produces unintended and unwelcome consequences including IT-based cultural domination, new colonization, technological slavery, attacks on privacy, hindrance to personal safety, insecurity, family conflict, mental pressure, health hazards, and hindrance to creative thinking.  Long working hours that began with Covid-19 has led to high blood pressure, insomnia, mental disorders, fatigue and boredom. Technological domination by developed nations emerges as a new form of colonization as developing countries are the markets. Developing countries struggle to keep pace with technologically advanced countries. Through this paper an effort has been made to understand and highlight the usage of technology during COVID 19 and the impact it has on the people is it a boon or curse for them.