SOC110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: The Boc Group, Cellular Differentiation, Fax
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One of the most dramatic changes in post-industrial economic systems includes the physical displacement of many workers from their primary places of employment. Telecommunications advances involving the use of digital broadcasting, fiber optics, and lasers greatly improved the ability of people working at different places to communicate with one another. We have also contributed to the development of the virtual workplace where lawyers, accountants, purchasing agents and others are remotely but not physically linked to their employers, clients and customers. To illustrate this, the home office of boc gases, a global manufacturer of industrial gases used in the manufacture of semiconductors, is situated in murray. Hill, new jersey, just outside new york only to select suppliers and customers. Boc maintains an online catalog of gases on a restricted-access website, open. Boc places orders in the millions of dollars on its website with no phone calls,
