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As the importance of communication has been increased, some people think ability to work with other people is more critical than before. However, in my point of view, working alone became less important than it was before for two essential reasons.
Firstly, working alone became more efficient than working with others comparable to the past. This is because most of infrastructures and fundamental things such as search engines to find information and working tools are settled these days. According to ICT conference Seoul held on this April, most of human activities will done by their own in some years due to increased ability of computer. As 80% of works could be done by computers, people will not feel the need of team works. Consequently, people can do almost everything by their own ability and using computers.
Secondly, as the percentage of working from home has increased contrary to the past, being able to work with other people is not important than it was before. In 21th century, high proportions of jobs are related to working from home as the types of jobs increased. For example, if one researcher wants to work, he does not have to meet other people to work with. This is due to the fact that researcher can do the research by his own, and he does not need to go out then do the research at home.
As a consequence, while others think being able to work with others is more important than it was before, I think being able to work with others is less important than the past according to the reasos I mentioned above. |