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1. Discussion Questions: What are the advantages and disadvantages of virtual offices, including telecommuting? Advantages (Continues to be more and more popular) No commuting to work Companies don’t spend money on office space Increase in productivity Individuals can work convenient hours Parents can watch after children and work simultaneously Disadvantages Having to setup a home office Lack of face-to-face communication Supervising the employees actions and work ethics Individual will get the feeling of isolation 2. Accuracy of data input is important. What method of data input would be for each of the following situations and explain why: To capture data from printed questionnaires I would assume you would use an image scanner. This way you can electronically capture the input written by each individual, and always have a record as well as easy access to finding it. During an automated telephone survey normally they use voice recognition to capture the individuals records. Based on the how the computer is setup up for this it will actually total the survey and do all the data crunching for you so you do not have to do twice the work. Bank checks use magnetic in character recognition (MICR). This is where the numbers on the bottom of the check are read through a machine and tell you the bank routing number, check number, account number, and then to follow would be the amount of the check after it has been processed. Retail Tags use bar code scanners, which use UPC’s as their guide to tracking and purchasing clothes. Using this method it is easy for the store to track their inventory as well as find specifics on the article (name & price) with just the UPC. This is most common in a department stores due to the easy nature of the system. Long documents are normally scanned through a page scanner or in a word processing program. This allows you to put a large document in the scanner and it will scan it automatically one page at a time without you having to change each sheet. The word processor saves time, instead of having to use a typewriter you can go in and re-edit your document as much as you want. 3. Convenience and quality of output are important. Explain what method of output would be best for each of the following situations and explain why: Using a hand held computer or PDA has become popular in the last few years.
Approximate Word count = 1622
Approximate Pages = 6.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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