Around the world it is likely that more adults will work from home and more children will study from home as computer technology becomes cheaper and more accessible. Do you think it is a negative or a positive development?

Computer technologies have changed the way people live over the recent years. It is not unlikely that not only a number of adult people will work from

home

, but

also

many children will study from

home

because computer technology is getting cheaper and become more accessible around the world. In my opinion,

this

new trend is a negative development which can lead to the lower level of

productivity

as well as isolation.

First

of all, one serious problem that can arise from adults working at

home

is that it can lead to decrease the

productivity

of working adults. The reason is that people, who work from their

home

, can be easily distracted by

home

atmosphere, which is less formal.

For example

, if adults employed have a child, they would not perform well in the

home

environment due to the parental care for the child.

Thus

, it is likely that parental roles can lower their

productivity

. Another issue is that learning at

home

for children rather than at

school

is not useful for their development. The main reason is that the

school

environment can play an important role in the socialization of children.

For instance

, unless classes are taught at

school

, children make hardly friends.

In other words

, the

school

environment helps children make friends, and socialize them.

Thus

, the distance education is not beneficial for the socialization of pupils. In conclusion, computer technologies are changing the nature of working as well as the basic education. In my opinion, distance-working and distance learning is a negative development because it will likely result in the decrease in the level of

productivity

, and

also

prevent children from making new friends.