26. Conquering the Last Frontier in the Digital Invasion: The Home Front

As digital technology conquers new territory, and there is ubiquitous use of technology, the last frontier has fallen in the digital invasion, and the digital activity hubs have come home. While all these activities and the silent digital crusade was going on, the clear demarcation between the home and the workplace disappeared. The workplace was a place of production, of making a living, of discovery, and of personal development. The home, on the other hand was a place of sanity, serenity, rest, and personal entertainment. The kind of technology that entered the homefront was originally designed to be small. Instead of becoming small like their production technologies, these homebound technologies became big to enhance realism in entertainment.

The smartness and intelligence of digital devices, whether big or small, started to create a kind of relationship and courtship between the two divergent technologies. The marriage took place without fanfare, and the home front will never be the same. It has become, in addition to entertainment, a production front.

More and more people are now working from home for convenience or otherwise. Employers are finding benefits from some kinds of employees working from home. More and more professions are discovering that working from home is more beneficial and profitable than the workplace outside the home. There is now a growing list of production activities that are better done at home. In this chapter, we focus on a list of problems resulting from this marriage.