Summary: Internet Making Life Easier for Business People

In his article, “Internet Making Life Easier for Business People”, Michael Pastore reported that the survey “The Internet Impact on Business Productivity and Individual Work Habits ” shows the American companies are promptly combine the Internet with their daily business practices, and they use it as a tool to collaborate with businesses and improve work productivity. Most of the survey respondents use the Internet to do many kinds of works. Mainly they use it to access online maps, obtain flight information, conduct research on other companies and other tasks. There are 68 percent of respondents said the internet help them reduced the costs and 63 percent said it makes customer service becomes much better, and they all consider themselves gain a lot of benefits from the Internet. For business travelers, four out of five respondents use it to connect to network or intranet and more than half of them use it to rearrange their travel plans. More and more business professionals are using the Internet to attend a meeting or work with other coworkers.

Michael Pastore, “ClickZ.” Internet Making Life Easier for Business People. 1999.