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Michelle
Michelle
7/25/2017 2:12:51 PM
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Re: Generation Z
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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ms.akkineni
ms.akkineni
7/25/2017 1:30:18 PM
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Re: Generation Z
@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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Ariella
Ariella
7/25/2017 9:43:26 AM
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Re: Generation Z
@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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Ariella
Ariella
7/25/2017 9:23:28 AM
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Re: Generation Z
@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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Adi
Adi
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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Adi
Adi
7/25/2017 5:55:21 AM
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Re: Generation Z
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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Adi
Adi
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
afwriter
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
faryl
7/24/2017 7:25:31 PM
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Re: Generation Z
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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Michelle
Michelle
7/24/2017 2:21:59 PM
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Re: Generation Z
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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