Comments on: Gen Y in the Workforce

By: In the future we will… at Michael Specht - discussions on HR and technology

Mon, 28 May 2007 21:44:25 +0000

[...] to me we will have much bigger issues than just Gen Y in the workforce, but it will be [...]

By: Michael Specht

Michael Specht — Sat, 26 May 2007 01:59:14 +0000

Completely agree Tony!

I have this argument with people all the time who say “back in my day we respected other peoples time/money/work/etc”, kind of funny if you go back 20 years when the same thing was being said

By: Tony Goodson

Tony Goodson — Wed, 16 May 2007 08:52:45 +0000

I’ve been thinking about this as well.
http://tonygoodson.typepad.com/tonygoodson/2006/06/business_and_th.html What will a new starter turning up to a big corporate make of having to switch off their SMS and mobile, lock-down on their PC/Laptop, an operating system (Windows 2000 or XP) that is one or two generations behind the one they have at home, no Chat, “What’s Twitter?”, RSS – No Thanks!

How long will a GenY/Z or Millenial last with technology that’s 5-10 years behind the technology they use at home!

Will a large corporate (Bank) allow SMS, Chat, Twitter, RSS onto it’s precious network? Hell No!! So what’s going to happen? How will the large corporate employers attract and keep the Gen Yers?

This is going to be very interesting!!

By: Shannon Seery Gude

Shannon Seery Gude — Wed, 16 May 2007 00:41:26 +0000

Hi Michael,

Thanks for the mention. Your post is actually how I found out that I had been quoted!

Here is the post that my quote can from: http://www.exceler8ion.com/2007/03/04/the-rise-of-corporate-social-networks-and-openid/

There are a good number of comments on the post but our database was recently tampered with and comments are broken. We are working on getting the backup restored and should be in working order soon.

Hope you’re well.