Organisational Virtualisation in Nigeria: Creating Jobs or Job Loss?
Abstract
Whether Virtual Communication is creating jobs or taking away jobs in organisations in Nigeria has been in the front burner since the turn of the 21st century when virtualisation gained popularity in the continent. Organisations that have substantially gone virtual include the oil companies, Banks and some universities. The general belief is that computers have the ability to do jobs meant for more than an individual therefore with the advent of virtualisation, more and more people were going to lose their jobs to technology driven machines. The questions begging for answers however are, do these computers operate themselves? Are there no human inputs in these computer mediated operations? Do the computers really take away all the jobs or do they also create jobs along the line? One thing is sure, the world is going virtual and organisations in Nigeria have no choice but to follow suit if they want to remain relevant in the scheme of world economy. This paper therefore delves into the influence of virtualisation on job creation or loss in organisations in Nigeria.
Keywords: Virtual Communication, Job creation, Virtual Organisations, job loss
