According to a survey reported by Sky News, some young people actually consider quiting if certain website were baned at work. Amongst these Facebook and YouTube, social- and downloading sites. Here in Sweden the question of Facebook surfing at work have been discusses and viewed as a serious problem. I can understand in some way how employer view personal web surfing as a problem when people are there to work. Still the new (my) generation do things differently and view it through a new perspective. This generation, labeled Millennials, have been raise with the explosion of technological development and learned to embrace these new changes and challenges in new ways the older generation can’t comprehend or understand. I view my self as a “learning by doing” type, while my father start by reading the instruction book.
Also as we’ve been raise along side and with new technology we’ve developed multitasking on a whole new level. Video game is a good example of a multitasking training simulator.
I like this new changes, and hope to see more of them. How we work and change the way and places we work. How we dress and the relationship to working. It seems like in old times work equals hard booooooring sadness which people only did for the money. My generation on the other hand view the possibilities to work with something fun and rewarding. And to do in on our own terms! I don’t like the notion of dress codes or how we judge other working people depending on how they dress. We don’t work with our cloths, we could do the same work naked, almost.
The social site are not just for personal relationships and connections. If used right it can be an effective work-tool. Just the other week I had one new partner at work who added me on Facebook. Its been reported how company’s who tries to implement those new social “tools” in the corporate structure have failed. Probably cause people don’t know how it work, don’t see the need. Or that you simply can’t take a successful concept online and just copy-paste it into the company and except people to use it.
I’m really looking forward for new work landscape, were old conventions and norms becomes updated by us, the new generation. We are the future, let us shape it the way we want! Our future, our rules 