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OK. So this question here relates to an earlier one about Twitter that Matthew answered, and
resources being sometimes blocked by, maybe, larger corporates.
So, the question, the point of discussion, relates to what is known as the millennial
generation, the younger folks in their twenties, early thirties, even. But not into the gen
x, gen y.
Millenials, who are obviously going to go into the corporate world, and business world,
and into IT.
And I'm just curious, Matthew, if you're seeing this already. Folks coming in quite early
on in their careers - how they work, how they choose to behave and use tools. Is it dramatically
different from much older managers, much older staff? And have you general comments? Is it
good, bad, or don't know yet?
Don't really know yet. I think, well, look at this, "bring your own
device". BYOD. Everywhere you look people are mentioning
it. Vendors are mentioning it and you can get into arguments on how you actually define
what 'BYOD' is.
I look at things like 'bring your own device' as, you know, in a lot of cases it sounds
like people want to bring their own stuff in because they're not happy with the corporate
solution that they have. And I'm grossly oversimplifying this, but I've seen this to a certain degree.
And there's this, almost a sense of entitlement - that people think they have these days:
"I should be allowed to work how I want to work, or do what I want to do."
You know, corporations exist to make money for their shareholders, not to give you jobs.
So, you know, if companies are willing to ??, they allow you to do your job, to whatever
suits you, and that makes you more effective, then companies would be stupid not to do that.
Because if you work more effectively they can get the job done with fewer people, or
you can get more accomplished and the company can get more money, more business, what have
you.
I think a lot of this remains to be seen but the typical day-to-day workforce, they're
doing the same things. Now one thing I have noticed, and this affects me too personally
is, I tend to talk on the phone a lot less these days. I do so much more over email and
instant messaging and things like that, to where I have a smart phone and I probably
use it to talk on it with someone on the other end, maybe 5% of the time. And 95% of the
time it's texting and email, and things like that.
That's the big shift I see, you know, the standard methods of communication i.e. voice,
are dwindling, getting smaller and smaller but, a lot of this still remains to be seen
but for the most part, we're still sitting in cubicles, we're still, you know, using
laptops and desktops to get our job done.
There's a larger number of remote workers, but there are still companies that do not
allow remote workers because they think you're just going to sit at home all day and watch
soap operas, which I think is completely wrong but to be determined, I guess, is the short
answer.
Ok. Thank you.