Your Job And How Technology Will Change It by Richard Lieberman

Author:Richard Lieberman [Lieberman, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: homeworking, employment, social networking, lieberman, technology, change
ISBN: 9781852515454
Publisher: Management Books 2000 Ltd
Published: 2014-06-26T14:00:00+00:00

For young people, the gaming world, where they play complex, ongoing games, provides a virtual environment offering a social life and a collaborative environment as they communicate with other gamers. This world is all-encompassing as gamers spend hours each day living in a parallel universe that is as real to them as the physical world.[93]

Overall, Turkle’s research shows that digital natives are different than people over 35 or 40. Today, their social world is completely different, just as their work world will be. We are seeing this already with young people in the workplace. They will be the future game changers of the work world.

Here are some of the ramifications. As younger people now live in a social world where physical location is almost irrelevant to what they do, the central workplace or any particular workplace is becoming more and more unnecessary to them in the performance of their jobs. Just as their social life travels with them wherever they are, their work life will be portable and will exist regardless of time or place. The notion that one needs to have a structured physical work environment with set hours is already belied by successful students today who work virtually with their computers, tablets, or smartphones in cafes, at home, anyplace, and at any time. Students tell me that there is no real need for them to physically attend college lectures if those same lectures are available online. I interviewed one individual at an elite law school who had travelled across the country during the middle of the semester to visit family for three weeks, missing nothing, he said, because all of the lectures were available virtually.

Turkle talks about the new sense of place. It used to be that if you went to a coffee shop people would be drinking coffee and engaging in the activities related to that experience. Now, in a café, almost everyone is on their computer or smartphone. They are in a different space, engaged in recreation, work, and/or family matters. This is a window into the future of the work world, and young people will lead the change because they already live this way.[94]

This is an argument I so often hear from corporate executives: the social interactions and personal connections from being in the same physical office, meeting at the coffee machine, and going out to lunch cannot be replaced when workers are physically separated. But this is belied by the completely different social world that young people inhabit. I believe that Turkle’s studies effectively show that the language and the emotional intensity of communications in the young’s virtual social world will inevitably be imported into the new business networking world, where workers will communicate with the same effectiveness, clarity, and emotion that they would if they were together. The way young people live today in a virtual world will be a major catalyst for the paradigm change in the way everyone works.

Skills that young people have developed to text and communicate through social networks

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