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Assignment
Business Communication Trends

Written and oral communication skills are essential for a business to be productive. Managing daily work activities would not take place if a business was ineffective in their communications skills. Trends in communication will change in a work place as technology changes. Business communication plays a giant role in the day to day activities at the work place. When there is ineffective communication between co-workers then there is ineffective production. “Good communication matters because business organizations are made up of people” (Blalock, 2005). According to Blalock (2005) there has been research that shows that typically managers spend up to 80 percent of their time doing some sort of oral or written communication. According to the National Commission on writing, when a person has bad communication skills they usually will not be hired or promoted, eight percent of corporations with the greatest employment growth potential assess writing during hiring, two-thirds of salaried employees have some writing responsibility, and more than forty percent offer or require training for salaried employees with writing deficiencies. For all these reasons and for many more, business communication skills are important for any business to be able to produce effectively and for a person to be able to get hired or move up in a company. Daily work activities are managed better when you use effective written and oral communication. When you use effective communication your day goes a lot smoother, more is accomplished, and the company has not lost any money. The effectiveness of good communication during the day has many benefits, time is saved in not having to rewrite material, efforts are more effective so answers are more accurate and done in a timely manner, when points are made clear information is