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Accenture Report on Millennials at Work

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I know, I know, some of you say I talk about Millennials too much! But here a global survey and recommendations for dealing with Millennials at work:

Jumping the boundaries of corporate IT: Accenture global research on Millennials? use of technology
from Accenture.
[16 page PDF]

Slaw.ca summarized some of the more interesting findings include:

“? Millennials in the Americas and Asia-Pacific have very positive perceptions of technology, whereas most of them in Europe think that technology takes up too much time.
? Chinese Millennials spend the most time using real-time communication tools for both work and personal use.
? Millennials want to choose what technologies they use at work, especially in emerging markets.
? Millennials increasingly choose their employer based on access to leading technology.
? Millennials routinely bypass corporate approval when using devices and applications.

The report concludes with ways management teams can benefit from the survey findings. The report suggests the following:

? Adapt IT policies to deal with generational diversity.
? Accelerate experiments with social networking.
? Bridge the generation gap.”
? Listen and learn.
? Involve Millennials in polciy review.

Stephen

Full post as published by Stephen's Lighthouse on February 25, 2010 (boomark / email).