Sean ODriscoll of Microsoft points in his blog Community Group Therapy to Corporate Transparency where he blogged about how Gen Y will change the workplace and how the defacto web 2.0 workstyle of this emerging demographic will change the workforce.
In Exploring Communities and Corporate HR he discussed the disconnect between traditional, largely internally focused, HR processes for talent management and organizational design and the emerging workforce that is anything by hierarchical by design.
Today, in the Seattle Times, Sean came across the following article: Generation Y plays games on the job. It makes for an interesting followup to these earlier posts.
This reminds me of a discussion I participated at the dinner prior to Amsterdams Blogwalkeleven. A student appropriately said that he definitely would not work for an employer that denied him free access to the net at his workplace. And I could not agree more, realizing how my former employer denied my colleagues access to the internet.
Comments
@ 11:43
Very interesting! My husband and I luckily do not have to answer to “the boss” anymore, as we work for ourselves. But, we both have worked in the corporate world and his boss was very leniant, while my place of employment would track where you went online, how much time you spent doing what, etc. It is just insane how different one place of work can be from another.
@ 16:47
More to the point, unless they’re willing to jam/confiscate smart phones, it’s soon going to be *impossible* to keep employees from accessing the internet from work without blocking or monitoring. Some of the high-end models can plug in standard monitors and keyboards, many can share their IP connection with a standard PC through a USB cable, and all can browse freely (it’s pretty much the defining characteristic of a smart phone that it has a web browser and a large enough screen for decent readability).
What drives some employers nuts is that they used to be able to chain people to their desks and assume they were doing something vaguely work-related, if only out of boredom. Now, they actually have to monitor their productivity by some direct means, which means paying some attention.
–Dave
@ 23:43
Thank you David that is excactly what I thought, but wasn’t able to put into words. This is the new reality. It’s time for employers to treat highly educated professionals as responsible workers and keep them accountable for their performance. Therefore I was so happy to hear this student say without hesitation: “That is not the kind of employer I will work for”. With demographics (greying of society) and labor shortages developing as they are employees should focus on the question ‘what do tomorrows workers need to give the best of themselves’ instead of parenting them as kids.
@ 23:51
A friend responded to the above article via the email and added the following refreshing perspective: “I think it fails to recognize what these kids are bringing to the business world. Rather, it talks about how the business world can get them to do what it is already doing in the ways it already does. I’d be more interested in seeing an article about how these Gen Y’ers are changing the very nature of business organizations….”
@ 23:54
I really enjoyed reading this ,thanks
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