Older coworkers
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Jun 14, 2022
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I was talking to some coworkers and we were all noticing how certain people we work with have a hard time adopting new technology. Here we are a few years into a pandemic-fueled remote work world, and some people are still learning how to share their screen in Microsoft Teams. One coworker said it's because our generation (born in the 1980s) were the first generation with internet in our homes while we were in high school. We're used to adapting to the ever-changing landscape of technology. We remember a time before the internet, before smartphones, before social networks. And as these new things came about, we (sometimes grudgingly) adopted them and incorporated them into our daily lives. People who are even a few years older seem to have been almost left behind in the pre-digital age. They write things on paper; they cold-call people without messaging them first; they have trouble with copying and pasting and emails. It's weird how there's almost a generational gap in technological proficiency, and the age difference is sometimes less than 10 years.
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