Effects of electronic commerce on employment

As having happened in every domain, technology has also intensively placed itself in commercial life. Electronic commerce called new economy has become a tool for shopping in every level of life as a result of technological expansion in commers. Electronic commerce is an indispensable way of commerce for both customers and sellers since it has some advantages such as lower prices than conventional markets, easy credit card payment methodologies and possibilities, timeless shopping opportunity.The more internet is getting expanded, the more electronic commerce is popular. As a result of the expansion of Internet e-commerce became a tool for shopping for everyone. Individuals and institutions that realized that both Internet and electronic commerce commercially are profitable started to invest into these domains. They, building necessary web pages, started electronic commerce. Companies were founded in the domain of electronic commerce. Realizing the profound importance of electronic commerce some countries has built supporting policies for electronic commerce.Under the globalization process with the possibilty of shopping from different countries for 24 hours, electronic commerce has rapidly become popular. Naturaly, individuals, companies and the states are in competition to be dominant in electronic commerce.Providing new employment opportunities electronic commerce has helped to increase the rate of employment. Since the employees work on electronic platforms, and employer and employers meet on a virtual environment and take decision about task distribution, electronic environment is more preferable than the conventional one.The aim of this thesis is to understand electronic commerce that expand itself each single day, to observe the way of electronic commerce in various countries and Turkey. Analysing the place and importance of electronic commerce in business life, it is found out its contribution to employment rate and employablity.