So you get in college these days, and in addition to the great classroom experiences, you have great on-line discussion tools where you can post questions and solve problems with other classmates.\u00a0 You turn in all of your assignments on-line and have valuable feedback from your professor through technology.\u00a0 It\u2019s assumed that you\u2019ll bring your laptop to all meetings, and often, your class notes can be shared with others in a seamless and simple way.<\/p>\n
You graduate from college with great enthusiasm and get a 5 year old PC with MS Office and Windows 2000.\u00a0 People bring paper and pen to meetings and then spend (waste) time later putting notes into an e-mail.\u00a0 Collaboration happens in the hallway.\u00a0 You wonder why your work colleagues are 10 years behind the times.<\/p>\n
The ongoing debate that has raged on the web and at systematicHR over the last few months hasn\u2019t brought us any conclusions about whether these \u201cmillennials\u201d are any different from the rest of us in terms of how they look at the world.\u00a0 But they are certainly different in their treatment of work and their use of technology.\u00a0 The hard cold truth is that the fact there has been a transition for these new graduates, and that they have a completely different experience with the technology that could be used for work, networking and collaborating with others is not something that will create a major retention risk.\u00a0 While they might be disillusioned with what they find, the truth is that there really are not better places for them to go.\u00a0 Sure they all want to go to Google, but not all of them will make it and there are very few Google\u2019s around.<\/p>\n
My hope is that we can start implementing some of the technologies found in higher education and place them into the workplace.\u00a0 Where 5 years ago we would have had trouble with adoption, today we have a younger segment of the workforce that will give us instant adoption.\u00a0 With these employees leading the way, we can now quickly advance new technology adoption at rates we never had before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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