Gen Y-Ers, Baby Boomers & Technology: Worlds Apart?
- Topics:
- Technology
- Tags:
- Conventional Wisdom,
- Deloitte LLP,
- Technology,
- Worker
- Source:
- Deloitte Development
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Overview: It's a common perception: Older workers just don't get new communications technologies like email, instant messaging and company intranets. Why should they, after all? Baby Boomers in Western nations grew up alongside TV and the telephone, and conventional wisdom says they're simply too rooted in these traditional technologies to adopt something new. Turns out conventional wisdom is relative to one's hemisphere. Because in emerging nations like China, India and Brazil, older workers are adopting new technologies at a rapid pace - more quickly than Boomers in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
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Format: PDF | Size: 514KB | Date: Sep 2008 | Pages: 4
