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BBC has an article on Gen Z achieving burnout in only 2 years.
Part of their stress is they have less invested in the work environment
Although all generations might be juggling high volumes of work, Gen Z has the least “workplace capital”
How many of you thing that the youngest are already achieving burnout?
The youngest employees are already feeling pressured and exhausted – even in the earliest stages of their careers.
The past 2 years of Covid have made it extremely hard for the Gen Z.
Dec 26, 2019 Gary Starkweather left us. Reflecting on what Gary has done and how he did had going over various documents written about Gary and watching his YouTube video on inventing the laser printer. Out of all all the inventions that came out of Xerox PARC the laser printer is the one that Xerox as a company benefited from its going to market. Why?
Because Gary was one only one who started with the problem of how to improve a Xerox Copier and realized he could turn it Into a digital printer of originals. Gary used the Xerography copier analog components and he bolted on the laser, optics, and electronics to make a digital transformation. Laser printing digital transformed printing as a new business process.
Digital transformation is used a lot as a term for change and justifying acquisition of new technologies. But few come close to what Gary did. It took 10 years for Gary’s idea of a laser printer to ship. There is much to learn from his efforts and what helps learning is to figure out how to explain what he did.
StaceyOnIOT has a nice post on how AR and IOT are used to improve the training process during these times of Covid.
The end result is good.
Wileman said that the company hires some 50 new people a year and saves about $1,200 per employee in training costs. So while PBC still has a hiring challenge, it is able to use IoT, robotics, and AR to get new staff trained more quickly and at a lower cost, which makes it less painful when those staff members eventually leave.
And the nice thing is the AR is being used to harvest the knowledge of the experienced.
AR helps scale the expertise held by an older employee or the maker of the machine by turning that expertise into software and sharing it, via heads-up displays, to any new worker.
With Covid AR and VR are all getting more traction.
The Verge has a post making the observation that the Gen Z as a group do not use files and folders the way past have done. The last paragraph highlights the change.
His advice to fellow educators: Get ready. “This is not gonna go away,” he says. “You’re not gonna go back to the way things were. You have to accept it. The sooner that you accept that things change, the better.”
What is the change? Many more students do not think like paper processes which has files and folders. The concept of a file cabinet is obsolete like a fax machine.
Professors have a hard time with this issue.
It’s a difficult concept to get across, though. Directory structure isn’t just unintuitive to students — it’s so intuitive to professors that they have difficulty figuring out how to explain it. “Those of us who have been around a while know what a file is, but I was at a bit of a loss to explain it,”
There are so many things that Gen Z does differently than the older people and getting Gen Z to do things the way things have always been done will just get harder.
My kids are 19 and 17 and they both have their phones on vibrate so I am aware of this habit, but until The Guardian put this article out I did realize how big this habit is.
A survey has found only a fraction of 16- to 24-year-olds think phone calls are remotely important - so they’ve put their phones on vibrate
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Well, actually, loud ringtones are over. A survey by the tech analyst Sensor Tower has shown that the number of ringtone downloads slumped by almost a quarter in the UK between 2016 and 2020 – from 4.6m to 3.7m.
The data shows less ring tones. And also part of the vibrate is hiding the amount of time they r being contacted.
Analysts also said teenagers prefer to have their phone on vibrate or get messages and calls via their smartwatches or Fitbits, so their parents – or their teachers – don’t know what’s going on.
Who remembers phone numbers any more? Remember when you had to dial phone numbers. Now you tell your phone who to dial or you use another app that has your contacts in it.
What seems to be coming soon is a time when you will get a phone with no phone number. You will have a data connection. Are Telcos ready for that? How much of their business is built on the regulatory issues of phone numbers?
And some of the earliest adopters of phones without phone numbers are the Gen Z and younger.