networkworld.com— Companies also will have to adapt as Gen Y students begin to flood the workplace over the next three to five years demanding business conducted in an online, multitasking, interactive style.
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When I interned at Lockheed Martin, they had an enterprise wide messaging app, it was extremely useful, and let me get a quick bit of info from some or multiple people without setting up a meeting, call, conference call or walking half way around the building for a face to face, or worse yet, another one to two line email. It may not be all about texting and myspace, but its definitely about instantaneous communication with multiple people that doesnt require a Rolodex of extensions.
I can't be the only one who skimmed your overly long first paragraph, reading only the first and last sentences of it, and then your 2nd paragraph. For someone who tries to teach critical thinking and analysis, your writing sure could use some work.
my job promotes usage of " txt speach " wen we annotate accounts. if u spell out entire words like " accounts " they yell at you for making the notes too long.
Since When does business have to placate generation Y. Business is Business and the key word and the key skill in business does not come from a blackbury. Those skills that are in much demand with regards to business are soft skills----you know--- teamwork and not competition, social skills, English etc. All the skills that Generation Y let slide by. No matter what generation goes by, as far as business goes it is the "soft skills" that are in demand. New computer skills will never replace the one-to-one interaction needed in the workplace. This has always been so. Whether it be the "baby boomers", the gen X, or the gen Y group. Business is there to make a profit, to stay in business; not to give deferential treatment to the next upcoming generation referred to as the Generation Y Group!
ell0boMay 20, 2008
10 fingers... wouldn't that make us the no thumbs generation? or... um... am I bad at math?
bjornskiMay 20, 2008
Generation "whine".
Closed AccountMay 20, 2008
When I interned at Lockheed Martin, they had an enterprise wide messaging app, it was extremely useful, and let me get a quick bit of info from some or multiple people without setting up a meeting, call, conference call or walking half way around the building for a face to face, or worse yet, another one to two line email. It may not be all about texting and myspace, but its definitely about instantaneous communication with multiple people that doesnt require a Rolodex of extensions.
rpebbleMay 20, 2008
Goddamn dude where did you take this class? I haven't seen that at all in the past 4 years of undergrad.
jayscotMay 20, 2008
I can't see where too many Gen-Y have even left home yet let alone have jobs.
spoomeisterMay 20, 2008
I can't be the only one who skimmed your overly long first paragraph, reading only the first and last sentences of it, and then your 2nd paragraph. For someone who tries to teach critical thinking and analysis, your writing sure could use some work.
Closed AccountMay 20, 2008
UVA.
mcroyaltyMay 20, 2008
my job promotes usage of " txt speach " wen we annotate accounts. if u spell out entire words like " accounts " they yell at you for making the notes too long.
stax242May 22, 2008
Since When does business have to placate generation Y. Business is Business and the key word and the key skill in business does not come from a blackbury. Those skills that are in much demand with regards to business are soft skills----you know--- teamwork and not competition, social skills, English etc. All the skills that Generation Y let slide by. No matter what generation goes by, as far as business goes it is the "soft skills" that are in demand. New computer skills will never replace the one-to-one interaction needed in the workplace. This has always been so. Whether it be the "baby boomers", the gen X, or the gen Y group. Business is there to make a profit, to stay in business; not to give deferential treatment to the next upcoming generation referred to as the Generation Y Group!