{"id":721,"date":"2007-06-07T01:00:13","date_gmt":"2007-06-07T09:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=721"},"modified":"2007-06-07T01:00:24","modified_gmt":"2007-06-07T09:00:24","slug":"generation-y-mobile-technology-the-future-of-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=721","title":{"rendered":"Generation Y Mobile Technology: The Future of Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not usually very interested in mainstream work technologies from the standpoint of systematicHR.\u00a0 However, I was listening to yet another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/videos\/cio\/alcatel-lucent-avp-ray-gilbert\/334838\" target=\"_blank\">ZDnet interview<\/a> with a CIO (this time with Ray Gilbert of Alcatel-Lucent) regarding the next generation of technology.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c\u2026desire to watch convergence take place, to get people down to one cell phone or one phone number, or get people down to one mailbox or one experience at their desk and the mobility off their desk.\u201d\u00a0 ((Gilbert, Ray.\u00a0 \u201cTaking generation \u201cY\u201d mobile.\u201d\u00a0 Retrieved from http:\/\/www.zdnet.com on April 3, 2007.))<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don\u2019t know what form this \u201csmart\u201d device will look like, but one thing that I am thinking about is how our workforce will adapt to it.\u00a0 It\u2019s probably clear that the Millennials (Gen Y) will have an easier time adjusting to these leaps of technology coming at us, but I\u2019m not altogether convinced that the rest of us will have much difficulty adopting the technology.\u00a0 Walk into any airport and you\u2019ll see Blackberry devices everywhere.\u00a0 The culture of not only convenience but also full time productivity has captivated us as a society and we\u2019ve willingly learned how to use these devices that have made our lives easier<\/p>\n<p>A couple of considerations of Gen Y and non-Gen Y<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There is some justification for concern however.\u00a0 All of us know of people who have rejected these devices.\u00a0 Whether the reasons were for the difficulty of learning how to use them, or the unwillingness to be connected to work all the time, adoption has not been universal.\u00a0 However, if the future holds a device that will unify voice and data into a single<\/li>\n<li>On the other hand, if we\u2019re going to be battling over the talented Millennials, \u201cthe generation wants to be mobile, wants instant access. It doesn\u2019t take no as an excuse. And so it wants convenience, and that\u2019s a requirement being applied to every corporation and every IT leader, to be able to provide that, and its not going to go away.\u201d\u00a0 ((Ibid))<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This one might go to the IT organizations within our businesses, but how they manage and deploy change for our workforce technologies will play directly into our ability to engage the different generations of workers we employ.\u00a0 Again, we in HR may not drive some of these processes, but we need to find our voice.\u00a0 These technologies will shape our workforce, and we need to participate and influence how these decisions are made if we\u2019re to be the HR leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not usually very interested in mainstream work technologies from the standpoint of systematicHR.\u00a0 However, I was listening to yet another ZDnet interview with a CIO (this time with Ray Gilbert of Alcatel-Lucent) regarding the next generation of technology. \u201c\u2026desire&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,10,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications","category-engagement","category-work-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}