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clrmoney
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7/24/2017 8:33:03 AM
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Generation Z
Generation Z now are into today's technology more than the millennials. I'm not sure if that is a good or bad thing but we'll see as time goes on.

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Ariella
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7/24/2017 12:12:23 PM
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<One data point that does provide some insight is time spent with more "traditional" TV consumption. In fact, Gen Z spends less time viewing live TV and time-shifted TV than any other cohort. > I'm not surprised. They do spend a great deal of tiem in front of a screen, but I don't think they go for being dictated to by the timing of live TV.

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dcawrey
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7/24/2017 12:37:36 PM
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It will be fascinating to watch Generation Z enter the workforce. Millenials are currently filling up the ranks, and it's changed the dynamics. What will another generation bring to companies in the future?

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Michelle
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7/24/2017 2:21:59 PM
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Don't forget, a lot of these kids still remember the last days of Blockbuster and scheduled TV viewing. DVR was available, but not everyone had it. I also think at least some of them are learning from Millenial mistakes.

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Adi
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7/25/2017 5:59:00 AM
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Michelle - I think that's an important point. There's going to be a bit of a split between Gen Z-ers who are now college-going age or very close, and those that are younger. Because the older ones may remember a pre-on-demand world, and while it's hard to say how much difference it will make to their behaviour moving forward, it might. It's very possible that as Gen Z-ers born in more recent years grow up and develop individual video consumption behaviors we'll see Gen Z beahviors differ more significantly from millenials. 

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afwriter
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7/26/2017 11:27:15 PM
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It's crazy how a rapid change in our technology is placing a divide within single generations. I am at the edge of Gen-X and Millenial and my experiences are much different than that of some people I know that are on the other end of the Millenial generation. 

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elizabethv
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7/26/2017 9:06:09 AM
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@Michelle - The strange thing is Gen Z includes my 5 year old son - for reasons I don't really understand. I feel like the gap is way too big there, but I suppose I don't really know how my 5 year old will transform as he gets older. I know he has been playing with my phone since about the age of 1. It was only shortly there after that he mastered his grandfather's iPad. He has his own tablet, though he's only allowed educational games. He just recently entered the world of Mario video games. Though my best friends' son, who is the same age, has been playing for literally years at this point. Realistically, at this point, I also don't see a big difference between my 5 year old and my almost 3 year old, but my almost 3 year old doesn't make the cut off. Time will tell I suppose. 

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Michelle
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7/26/2017 2:32:43 PM
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The age cutoff does seem to be rather big for this group. It's really interesting to watch young children play with technology! They learn so quickly and memorize icons and positions to get around. I wonder what they'll think of the less intuitive systems they'll use as young adults...might be a bit frustrating.

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elizabethv
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7/27/2017 9:10:58 AM
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@Michelle - I'm not sure if they'll find much about technology difficult. They've been stressing starting coding at a young age for a few years now. When we were looking for a kindergarten for my oldest, that was one thing we saw as important - the availability of coding classes. There are even apps that get kids started with coding even as young as kindergarten. With the ability to understand coding from such a young age, I'm not sure much about technology will be all that challenging for them in the future. 

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vnewman
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7/27/2017 3:10:24 PM
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@elizabethv - I believe it is equally as important.  Coding is a language and with a global economy, it puts you at an advantage to be multi-lingual.  I'm hoping my son can speak at least 4-5 different languages.

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ms.akkineni
ms.akkineni
7/28/2017 1:12:37 PM
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@vnewman:

Agree with you 100%. KNowing multiple languages is certainly an added advantage in this global age. We can't even guess when it would come in handy, sometimes that may even turn out to be so significant tool.

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vnewman
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7/31/2017 2:07:19 AM
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@ms.akkinei - It appears being multi-lingual likely makes you "smarter" as well.

Published in the Journal of Neurolinguistics, the study tested groups of bilingual and monolingual subjects and shows that bilingual brains are more efficient and economical as they recruited fewer regions of the brain to complete the task. 

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ms.akkineni
ms.akkineni
7/31/2017 12:51:19 PM
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@vnewman:

That is interesting to know.

This makes sense. When a person's brain is trained to work well with multiple languages the efficiency quotient would have been increased. 

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batye
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8/4/2017 10:20:16 AM
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@ms.akkineni I would also say at the end it improves over all survival skills 

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ms.akkineni
ms.akkineni
8/29/2017 10:50:10 AM
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@batye:

There is no doubt about it. Acquiring any type of skills at an early age would help them have a solid foundation and that would help them to survive well in the extreme competitive world that we are in.

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batye
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9/3/2017 7:03:45 PM
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@ms.akkineni yes, as other gov. including Russia/China trying to bring technology to it kids from kindergarden age... hoping they gonna be ready for the new IT/Technology age... and Cyber Wars... 

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ms.akkineni
ms.akkineni
9/30/2017 1:11:27 AM
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That wouldn't surprise me. I see toddlers of 2-3 yrs independently handling smart phones to the extent of figuring out how to play their favourite video on youtube totally by themselves. So anything is possible with these kids these days.

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batye
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10/2/2017 4:13:04 AM
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@ms.akkineni yes as our new generation getting smarter with technology and it like they born with it :) but it new reality of IT/New age of technology... if we look at the history kids in the old ages did know how to survive in the wood :) using spear and knife... now they use smartphone :)  

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ms.akkineni
ms.akkineni
10/23/2017 1:21:34 AM
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Yes, I agree that they are getting far more advanced with smart age technology. One  downside of that trend is these kids are holding very little to no interest in othere regular things like reading books, free play / outdoor play etc. These smart devices are keeping them at super pace and that is making every other normal thing to be absolutely a boring ordeal for kids. I am not at all pleased with this trend at this age.

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ms.akkineni
ms.akkineni
7/28/2017 1:16:17 PM
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@elizabethv:

That is very true. Schools have computers and coding related stuff introduced for kids as early as KG. That is making them strat learning things with computers very quickly. By the time they turn 10, most of the kids are becoming pros with majority of the technology. That is an amazing trend. SOme times at that age kids are even surpassing some of teh adults that are not very connceted with technology world.

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vnewman
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7/31/2017 2:13:39 AM
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Here in California - they offer coding summer bootcamp for toddlers - possibly as a side-effect of being near silicon vally and silicon beach.  The target market group is 4-5 year olds. There are a number of apps, computer games and toys that all promise to teach your toddler how to code.

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ms.akkineni
ms.akkineni
7/31/2017 12:54:21 PM
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@vnewman:

Wow, coding bootcamp for toddlers? I am sure that must be recreational not the real coding coding type. But surely that must lay a ground in terms of getting those tiny brains familiar with looks of programs. Sometimes we never know there could be a child prodgy sitting in that group of kids that may walk out of that bootcamp writing a program.

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dcawrey
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7/31/2017 1:18:57 PM
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@ms.akkineni I think that's a great idea. 

These days, younger people don't fix things or use tools. Everything is digital now. Programming is a huge component of that. 

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ms.akkineni
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7/31/2017 1:33:30 PM
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@dcawrey:

Tnanks. I keep hearing stories about young children and their programming expertise pretty often. I remember hearing about a 10year old kid in India who cleared a java programming test which is an expert programmers level. Things like that amazes me. That kid is a prodigy. Surely there must have been similar random events that may have introduced him to programming, or at least to develop that curiosity. 

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batye
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8/4/2017 10:18:19 AM
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@dcawrey I would say it like they no longer live in our world, they reality is everything virtial... everything... 

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vnewman
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8/7/2017 6:26:16 PM
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@Ms. Akkineni - I'm guessing that the camps find ways to translate the concepts into a cause-effect type of game and that the kids who have a propensity toward understanding it should join "Future Coders of America." (if there is such a thing).

But in all seriousness it could help parents spot and develop any natural talent their kiddo has.

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elizabethv
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8/11/2017 9:29:53 AM
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@vnewman - They are starting to get kids started with coding a lot younger now. It's actually one of the reasons we picked the school my kindergartner is starting next week - they offer coding, even minimally to kindergartners. And there is a club in the school that kids can get involved in for coding as well. It worries me that they are going to saturate the market with potential coders down the road though.

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ms.akkineni
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8/28/2017 8:13:09 AM
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@vnewman:

Absolutely !

Early introduction of computer technology to kids would surely give parents an opportunity to notice natural talent as well as interest. But only very few will end up retaining that skill as they grow over the years.

My son use to be a chess genius, he won his very first K-3 grade level championship in a tournment when he was just 5. He reached to the point where he won state level. Now he is in highschool and completely got sidetracked from chess and got into basketball. I am sure he must still have chess inside but doesn't play anymore.

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faryl
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8/31/2017 6:19:39 PM
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That's really cool! My nephew's school has an "iPad club" as one of its after school programs, but I'm not quite sure what it is that they are learning in it. (And he's at the age where he's not really into talking to grown-ups right now. Lol)

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faryl
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7/24/2017 7:25:31 PM
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I wonder if we'll see the pendulum swing back to pre-GenX type workplace models - I can see "co-working" or "on location employment" being treated as a "new" trend where employees spending time working/meeting face-to-face shows greater potential for "collaboration & innovation" as opposed to telecommuting or something like that :-P

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Adi
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7/25/2017 5:55:21 AM
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faryl - Interesting. Going to a central office could become retro-cool, sort of like listening to vinyl. I can see the equivalent of some hipster brand making it mandatory to come in to work a few years down the road and it gets all sorts of press coverage -- Commuting is The New Telecommuting.

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Ariella
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7/25/2017 9:23:28 AM
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@Adi What people will be nostalgic for is having a full-time job that is not defined as temp. For all the praise of the "gig" economy, what it really means is that what academia did is now trickling into other industries, namely, ending full time professorships in favor of cheap, temporary labor in the form of adjuncts. Adjuncts remain so more by choice of the universities rather than their own preferences.

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Michelle
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7/25/2017 2:12:51 PM
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Academia is a crazy world for sure! In some cases, terrible tenured faculty get to stay on full-time while better adjuncts are stuck as part-timers.

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Ariella
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7/25/2017 3:03:56 PM
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@Michelle Yes, once tenure is awarded, professors can get away with quite a bit. Way too many abuse their positions, just using the classroom as a platform to promote their own political views and ideology even when they have a defined topic for teh course. Adjuncts would not likely get away with that because student complaints would likely mean they wouldn't get rehired next semester.

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mhhf1ve
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7/25/2017 4:17:07 PM
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I haven't seen too many tenured professors promote their own political views in the classroom, but maybe I haven't been taking the right classes. And students can usually see through the bias when it happens, anyway. Is it a real problem? I think most students know when they apply to their schools which schools have a liberal or conservative bent.

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Ariella
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7/25/2017 4:39:00 PM
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@mhhf1ve I'm drawing directly on my daughter's experience currently in a CUNY school with one particular professor. I'm not saying all do it, but some do.

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elizabethv
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7/26/2017 9:09:33 AM
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@mhhf1ve - I personally never experienced a teacher discussing their own personal views on anything. My brother bemoans the topic but I think it's just a political stance people seem to be taking anymore. I'm genuinely curious as to how frequently it actually happens (not saying it doesn't happen ever) compared to how often people seem to like to say it's happening. My experience is that college is there to teach you to think critically, and that's not really happening if they are force feeding you opinions. 

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mhhf1ve
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7/26/2017 1:53:06 PM
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College education is probably overdue for some disruption, so I don't think the problem of tenured professors teaching politically-biased lesson plans is going to present a long-term problem. 

Tenured professors themselves have a larger problem that their careers may not exist for much longer in the traditional form. Lecture halls filled with hundreds of students is not the best way to learn, and even adjunct professors or lecturers may have a hard time managing classes in the future when universities are digitized, downsized and decentralized.

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Ariella
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7/26/2017 2:22:22 PM
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@mhhf1ve Changes are definitely underway, though the tenured will not be booted out now. Even at traditional colleges, there are options for online classes. My daughter is enrolled in one over the summer. They don't have to do anything live at all -- only within windows. Also, though the professor passes on lecture notes, there is no lecture component in the traditional sense and no audio or video.

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mhhf1ve
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7/26/2017 5:24:30 PM
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> "Changes are definitely underway, though the tenured will not be booted out now.."

Tenured profs may not be booted out, but their working conditions can be reduced to the point where they voluntarily give up their position (or are forced out through other means). I know a few profs in Wisconsin, where the conditions for tenured faculty are threatened. Being an academic isn't always a cushy ride. While it's true that some tenured profs can move to other universities with more favorable tenure systems, that choice may not exist for others (or maybe not for much longer at all?).

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/12/07/faculty-members-university-wisconsin-oppose-proposed-change-new-post-tenure-review

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faryl
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7/25/2017 7:28:18 PM
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@ariella It's sad that the gig economy that purports to provide flexibility and should therefore help enhance/improve lifestyle is looking more like opportunities for companies to get cheap labor w/out providing benefits and likely results in many people feeling the pressure to be constantly in work mode. I feel like a "9 to 5" job is almost better in the long run, since it means being off from work when you're done for the day.

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afwriter
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7/26/2017 11:31:16 PM
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@Faryl, It's a great point. I am a freelancer and I feel as though my work is never done and there is always something more I could be doing. 

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Michelle
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7/27/2017 2:31:43 PM
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heh, you don't have to be a freelancer to feel that way. I feel that way at work and when I'm working on freelance projects. Everything will never ever be done...never.

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vnewman
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7/25/2017 7:00:35 PM
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@Adi - that's hilarious!  I always think that one day in the future it will common place for people to wonder in amazement: "You mean you had to GO somewhere to work every day????""  Astonishing!!

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faryl
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7/25/2017 7:18:29 PM
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Exactly! (Your comment about hipsters reminds me of a picture I just saw of hipster-esque folks standing outside Amazon's "innovative" new brick & mortar bookstore that's opening in NYC.)

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Ariella
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7/25/2017 9:43:26 AM
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@faryl there was an article on just this: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-boss-wants-you-back-in-the-office-1500975001

Big businesses have embraced flexible work practices, but fewer of them seem to favor full-time working from home.

International Business Machines Corp. IBM +0.49% Aetna Inc., AET +0.71% Bank of America Corp., Best Buy Co. BBY +0.64% Honeywell International Inc. HON -0.41% and Reddit Inc. are among employers that have ended or reduced remote-work arrangements recently as managers demand more collaboration, closer contact with customers—and more control over the workday.

Bringing workers back to the office isn't easy, managers say. Remote employees often set their own hours and ways of working, and bridle when faced with open-plan offices and set meeting schedules.
 

A large majority of U.S. employers let staffers telecommute sometimes, according to the Society for Human Resource Management.

Yet the portion of U.S. workers who performed all or some of their work at home fell to 22% last year, from 24% in 2015. Such workers spent an average of 3.1 hours a day toiling at home last year, down slightly from 2015, according to the Labor Department's American Time Use Survey.

Coming back to the office can be "honestly terrifying" for remote workers, says Andrew Marder, a research analyst with Capterra Inc., a business-software review site owned byGartner Inc.

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Michelle
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7/25/2017 2:14:10 PM
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Thanks for sharing that story. I wondered what might happen when companies decide they now want all workers in a building together.

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faryl
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7/25/2017 7:24:54 PM
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@Michelle It will be interesting to see how this impacts commercial real estate as well.

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faryl
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7/25/2017 7:16:16 PM
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@ariella Thanks for sharing this! (I'm feeling quite clever right now - though my comment was partly in jest - lol!)

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Ariella
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7/25/2017 7:32:30 PM
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@faryl It was positively prescient!

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vnewman
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7/26/2017 2:20:07 PM
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I would argue that, to an extent anyway, it takes a different skill set to manage remote workers than most managers are equiped with or are willing to learn.  There is a component of laziness to it - it takes more effort to try to keep the remote workforce engaged and on track. 

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Ariella
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7/26/2017 2:33:10 PM
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@vnewman I agree. It also takes the ability to break outside the traditional management box that looks at arrival and departure times and the appearance of busyness rather than actual output.

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vnewman
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8/7/2017 6:17:22 PM
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@Ariella.  Thank you.  Yes - thank you for that sentiment.  Why do we still pay people for the "passage of time?"  How is that a good indicator of performance or work product?  The "employment laws" are anitquated leftovers from the Industrial Age which have no business governing "information workers."

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faryl
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7/29/2017 4:56:06 PM
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@vnewman Good point. There needs to be a balance between providing motivation & avenues for accountability vs. being a virtual babysitter.

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ms.akkineni
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7/25/2017 1:30:18 PM
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@faryl:

I have heard this becoming a new trend again  in near future for obvious reasons like collaboration, team building etc. I agree that face value has a bigger value add in meetings besides audio/video issues we often times end up dealing with for fraction of the meeting time.

I personally like the mix of both on site and remote work environments. That flexibility adds a motivating factor while delaing with work-life balance situations. There should be a good way to coordinate and collaborate as needed  while having that flex option in hand.

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faryl
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7/25/2017 7:23:12 PM
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I agree. I used to work with multi-national teams, so it wasn't practical to meet face-to-face regularly, but I always found it was easier to work with people after we had the opportunity to connect in person, even if it was just a team-building dinner. Sometimes getting to know someone even slightly more than just emails & phone calls seems to vastly improve future interactions.

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ms.akkineni
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7/26/2017 9:14:03 AM
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@faryl:

Very true. Just that one F2F interaction would bring lot of value for any future interaction through out the project life cycle. One can clearly visualize the person and personality better in offline engagemnets.

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faryl
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7/29/2017 4:59:50 PM
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@ms.akkineni I agree! I found this to be especially true when working with cross-cultural teams. Just sharing a meal often helps alleviate some of the frustrations that can come along with different work styles, communication quirks, & even language barriers.

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ms.akkineni
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7/30/2017 3:05:30 PM
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@faryl:

Wouldn't have outlined it any better. That occurence of collaborating with multi-cultural teams has becoming very common in this global age. It's like a daily thing and hence ability to converse and get jelled is certaily a plus.

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faryl
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8/21/2017 7:37:06 PM
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@ms.akkineni It's a shame that globalization hasn't seemed to necessarily bridged cultural gaps that well. When I worked for Deloitte, they spent time discussing cultural differences & customs to be aware of prior to working with a team from a different country. Sometimes the smallest detail makes a world (pardon the pun) of difference.

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ms.akkineni
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8/26/2017 9:55:35 PM
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@faryl:

Yup, it indeed is unfortunate but that is the sad truth out there.

You shared good information about how things work at Deloitte. Getting to know about cultutal logistics about the teams that we need to interact would help a great deal.

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Adi
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7/25/2017 5:51:31 AM
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Ariella  - Yes, I think the concept of waiting for broadcast times is a bit bewildering to children born much after 2000. As afwriter also points out, they are more used to on-demand than to linear, particularly at a very young age.

But from a infrastructure/plumbing perspective though, live broadcast has it's uses. The recent premiere of the latest Game of Thrones season resulted in problems, particularly in Latin America. There were also reports of issues in the US, though HBO says these were not widespread.

Delivery of something with that kind of appeal is far more efficient via broadcast, specially when a huge volume of people want to watch it as soon as it is available -- classic "appointment viewing." So that's the balance that we have to figure out as an industry, as the viewing audience becomes increasingly composed of millennials and Gen Z-ers. 

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afwriter
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7/24/2017 10:53:10 PM
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My Gen Zers (4 and 7) can both work the Roku, my phone, their tablets etc. They also can't fathom the idea that Netflix and Facetime weren't always things. 

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faryl
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7/29/2017 5:01:54 PM
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@afwriter I bet the idea of having to use a land line to call for driving directions because there weren't any cell phones or google maps must sound absolutely bizarre to them too!

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dcawrey
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7/30/2017 1:41:53 PM
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Unlike some Millenials, Generation Z has probably never had to go anywhere without a cell phone. They certainly don't remember the days when music videos were played on MTV. You can watch those whenever you want on a smartphone now. 

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elizabethv
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8/2/2017 9:16:32 AM
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@dcawrey - My 5-year-old is at the tail-end of generation Z. He doesn't even know what television channels are. All of his shows are on Amazon, Hulu or Netflix. He's been entertained as we walk through grocery stores holding my cell phone in his hands. He could operate my cell phone and his grandfather's iPad from the age of 2. He couldn't even begin to fathom life without technology. And my husband and I genuinely try to limit his use of it. 

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faryl
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8/21/2017 7:22:07 PM
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@elizabethv It strikes me that limiting use of technology is probably a tougher & tougher balance for parents to find. It's one thing to limit a kid's time watching TV or playing games, but technology is such a key part of being able to do even schoolwork these days. My friends don't even like to take away or limit their kid's cell phone use because then it just makes it harder for them to be able to keep tabs on them.

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ms.akkineni
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8/29/2017 10:39:04 AM
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@faryl:

Thta is the exact challenge that almost all parents are facing these days. At one end it really gets frustrating to watch kids glued to cell phones all the time. On the other end they just need the phone to check their school related things. I still would prefer my son using his laptop for his academic related stuff rather than using his phone.

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faryl
faryl
8/31/2017 2:46:56 PM
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Re: Personal Experience
Aside from the social factors, I'm wondering how so much use of small screens will effect kids physically as well. The ergonomics of a laptop are probably better than a phone screen.

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batye
batye
9/3/2017 7:06:19 PM
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Re: Personal Experience
@faryl good point as my Dr. do recoment to add blue filter to all devices from laptops/tablets to the cellphone and smart watch...  as the safe option also enable in Win 10 nigh screen option 

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ms.akkineni
ms.akkineni
9/25/2017 8:28:02 AM
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Re: Personal Experience
@faryl:

Can't agree more with you, You just spoke my mind. I am so worried about my teenage son's excessive time of using his smartphone for anything and everything. I am concerned that his eyesight may be impacted down the lane. But these kids just don't care, they just prefer using it to laptops.

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batye
batye
10/2/2017 4:14:29 AM
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@ms.akkineni yes as smartphone basicaly replaces everything including learning from books - Kindle App :) smartphone it like all in one solution... 

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ms.akkineni
ms.akkineni
10/23/2017 1:24:39 AM
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Re: Personal Experience
@batye:

What you stated is right. But i am not at all pleased to see that. No kindle book or nothing else is going to replace reading real book. That is a habit that every kid must have. I see this disppearing almost if not already disappeared.

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faryl
faryl
8/21/2017 7:25:36 PM
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Re: Personal Experience
@dcawrey They've also not experienced having access to information limited by time of day or location. The concept of needing physical access to a library to research an assignment (and having to plan around its hours of operation) seems practically antiquated now.

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faryl
faryl
8/31/2017 6:17:05 PM
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Re: Personal Experience
They'll never know the embarrassment of having your dad pick up the phone in the other room while you're on the phone with your crush! :)

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freehe
freehe
7/26/2017 8:02:38 PM
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Generation Technology
It is easier for millennials and generation Z to quickly adapt to the latest technology because that is all they know. Generation Z has more options to access, view, listen to and read content than any other generation. If generation X or Y had the same experience they would have the same interests.

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batye
batye
7/26/2017 11:02:00 PM
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Re: Generation Technology
@freehe for me new generation is seems like they born with technology in they hands and they could figure it on the fly how to use new technology... 

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afwriter
afwriter
7/27/2017 11:07:42 AM
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It really is amazing how quickly they can absorb the knowledge, but it is probably because they are so young. It's just like how they say you should start teaching multiple languages at a young age because they learn quicker when they are younger. 

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batye
batye
7/27/2017 12:33:19 PM
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@afwriter I could not agree more as when we are younge our brain works and learn faster... but when old age hits... it becomes sad reality... 

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batye
batye
8/4/2017 10:15:06 AM
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@afwriter  yes, kids always learn better/faster/easy as older we get the less brain power we have at the end... 

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JohnBarnes
JohnBarnes
7/31/2017 10:45:00 PM
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No generation is just one generation
The Boomers were supposed to be the hippies and free spirits, then the wolves of Wall Street, and many of them were somewhat timid, cautious, save and invest types.

Millennials were supposedly helicoptered and self-esteemed into helplessness except that many of them were forced by shattered homes nad families to be independent from a very young age.

Whatever you are reading about Generation Z ("the thank god the alphabet is over" generation) is being written by people who are not them, mostly about the most affluent and privileged of their generation. And it's no truer than it was about any other generation.

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JohnBarnes
JohnBarnes
7/31/2017 10:49:53 PM
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Re: No generation is just one generation
Afterthought: also, generations tend to be made by events that hit when they were young. The GI Generation and Pearl Harbor is an obvious example, but so are the Boomers and the 60s assassinations/riots/Vietnam, or X and the collapse of Soviet communism, or the Millennials and the Sept 11 attacks. The event that defines the world for the Zs may not have happened yet (the Trump impeachment? the first terror nuclear weapon? the slide-off of the West Antarctic ice sheet?)

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elizabethv
elizabethv
8/2/2017 9:21:39 AM
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Re: No generation is just one generation
@JohnBarnes - That's a very true observation, I think there are a lot of unnecessary assumptions made about various demographics. And while Generation Z will have no choice but to grow up in a world saturated in electronics, I know there are a lot of parents with young kids trying to pull their kids away from that world. I see many fellow-parents right now saying they won't give their kids phones until they're much older. My 5-year-old has a tablet, but it's use is strictly limited and monitored - and it will stay that way. For the most part he plays learning games on it. We are not one of the families with our noses stuck in devices as we all sit at the dinner table. In fact electronics are not allowed at our dinner table - period. And I know of a good number of other families with the similar if not the same rules for their house. So while they are growing up in a world we don't recognize as worlds we grew up in, I hope there are a good number of families fighting to keep their kids away from the cords as much as we possibly can. 

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