Since we were talking about job-hunting in the previous post, let’s now deal with the way we deal with the Internet once you get the job.

As far as I’m concerned, I’ve only had one long work experience, which was last year at M6 Music, the music television network. Once, I was working on this project where I had to write a record which was basically a short benchmark about visual identity and logos of similar music networks. Therefore, I heavily relied on the Internet. After watching the networks on tv, I switched screen to research informations about logos and current trends so as to understand better what I was talking about. Then, I looked for informations regarding the companies and agencies making the “skins” or the visual environment of the networks I had worked on.

You thus have one example of Internet as a endless data base where you can find information, know what is going on at the moment, what is working and not working, what the competition is up to (to a certain extend) and hone your knowledge on a specific issue.

Above all, you can communicate at all time and faster with your colleagues: you have emails of course, which are helpful when you’re not there (or if you work from home). You also have the Intranet which makes you able to enjoy special resources. For instance, at the moment, my mother learns English through an interactive online program and she doesn’t have to go anywhere. Actually, it’s the Extranet and not the Intranet, but it’s pretty much the same. You can also share your work with your team mates to conclude.

All in all, you can enjoy useful resources for your work through the use of the Internet. Nonetheless, there is also some fear from companies that say that employees spend too much time for their private use (personal emails, social networks, non-work related contents, etc.). Personaly, I wouldn’t like to have my Internet access “locked”. Nor would I agree with the company spying on me.