November 27-29 Discussion (Cha-Ching)
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There are many ways that a business works online in this day and age. There can be many reasons businesses have moved online. A few reasons could be convenience, cost issues, online businesses, or less overhead costs or in one of the examples profiting off online games. In many ways a business works the same way online that it does offline. There are still goals that are being made, meetings being held, and work to be done. It is just in this era you can do most of your work from a remote location which is why outsourcing is popular today. For example in the article that talks about Chinese gold farming this business is being held in China, but North American players are using the service. This has to do with that in North America a job like this would never be an actual job nor could it be based on American and Canadian laws. In China according to the article workers are paid .30 an hour and work 12 hours a day 7 days a week (Dibbell, 2007). In this case gold farming would not be a job in any other part of the world, due to low pay from workers, illegal wages, and illegal work hours a day. However, the internet brings this service and profits on it in some where in the world. In this day and age any part of the world can find something to profit off of online. In IBM's case when they discuss how Linden Labs set up their meetings and events online rather than in person it was a cost issue and it helped workers learn this new technology the company was moving towards. In IBM's case it was more a strategic business plan that I why they went to working online for cost reasons and to train their workers so the workers have another tool in their business arsenal for future use. In many ways the internet has made business expand globally and have made start up businesses and big traditional businesses get creative with how they utilize the internet as a tool to turn a profit and cut costs along with create new businesses.