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Segment.com reorganized its office as part of its "anti-distraction campaign. Aocording to an article in the Wall Street Jourmal, the company cut back on its internal text messaging service and moved "some of its communication back to email to reduce the number of notifications employees were receiving. Source: Rachel Feintzeig, "How One Firm Lowered Its Open-Office Noise," WaW Street Jounal, November 15, 2016 Does this movement from a new technologytext messaging-to an older technolcgy-emairepresent positive or negative technological change at Segment? Briefly explain OA. Positive technological change, because more output can be produced using the same inputs. B. Negative technological change, because output from a given quantity of inputs may dec ine. ° C. Positive technological change, because output can be produced at a lower cost. O D. Negative technological change, because the old technology had already been available. Suppose that competition for software engineers results in Segment.com having to pay them higher salaries. Would the fact that the firm will now face an increased cost of providing its services be an example of negative technological change? Briefly explain. O A. No, this would not represent technological change because the same output can be produced using the same inputs. O B. No, this would not represent technological change because the output's price will rise with workers' wages. () C. Yes, this represents negative technological change because the cost of producing the same output has increased. D. Yes, this is an example of negative technological change because fewer workers will be hired, reducing output.

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Q1) Answer: B

This is the change from new technology to old technology. Once this is done the employees (labor input) of the organization may not get notification quickly about works; it may decline their performance; therefore, this is a negative movie.

Q2) Answer: A

This is not a technological change, because the same input (engineers) is used for the same quantity of output. Technological change indicates of having higher quantity of production with the same quantity of input used earlier; this is not happening here.

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