Technological change is always accompanied by realignments of the markets and
work organization. With the advent of information and communication tec hnology
revolution such realignments have undergone unprecedented changes. ‘Informationisation’
of the society has placed work organization in the centrestage discussion on
reorganization of the economy. It benefits some and deprives others; it creates new
skills while effecting deskilling; it creates new commodities and alters relations
between human beings and the world of commodities. Information and communication
technology (ICT) enhances productivity and paves way for added employment
opportunities. Those economies, which innovated these technologies, have gained
global competitiveness and those who shied away from it lost economic opportunities
that they could have made use of. Digital globalisation has become the term of
postmodernity. Information-isation has both effective and affective dimensions; it
influences the whole social fabric by remolding the individual and inter-individual
relations in the civil space and in the family. It influences both work and leisure. ICT
heralds the days to come.