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In a 700- to 1000-word essay, evaluate how technology has blurred the lines between personal and professional life for workers. Include the positive and negative outcomes as well as recommendations to leverage the positive and negate the negative outcomes. Integrate sociological concepts from the readings as well as those found in two additional scholarly articles.
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Introduction
Most people in the world are tied to different occupations in which they work by applying
their skills. However, today’s workforce depends on technology to work as well as interact with
other friends and family members. As a result, technology has continued to affect personal and
professional life by bridging the gap between the two. Personal life includes the activities that
someone does outside the work environment, while professional life involves all the work
activities to which a person is committed. From this difference, the two types of life are not similar,
but technology has blurred the lines between them in different ways. Moreover, this kind of
blurring has led to several outcomes that have impacted people both negatively and positively.
How Technology Has Blurred the Lines between Personal and Professional Life
One way that technology has blurred the line between personal and professional life is
through social media. According to Charoensukmongkol (2014), it is not possible to differentiate
the time for talking to families and friends and coworkers on social media. It is because people
who work together are now engaging in conversations even after working hours via social media.
Also, people a...
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