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Is half the problem that gen Y grew up with email as a communications platform and had actual computers with actual mice and actual software installed on said c

Is half the problem that gen Y grew up with email as a communications platform and had actual computers with actual mice and actual software installed on said computers. Gen z may be plugged into their phone, but a phone is a far cry from the tech that is actually used on the office. And Tik Tok isn't like an Excel spreadsheet. Further, prior generations had to write letters etc which transfers across to email in a professional setting more than YOLO lol .

hgsgm 4y ago
Gen Z uses laptops and Microsoft/Google Docs/Sheets/Slides in school.
Double_a_92 4y ago
This. Most younger people I know, only need a real PC to write essays. Which then get automatically stored on some Office365 or Google school cloud. The part about letters is not fair though, since most people also just learned it by having to write business letters.
- benj111 4y ago
  The skills used in writing a letter are closer to an email than a text or whatever. I'd be more confident that my gran who doesn't use a computer could compose a company wide email, compared to someone who has never had to send such a one way conversation.
sadmin 4y ago
I don't think this is the case at all, my brother and I are at opposite ends of the GenZ age scale and we both had full-on computer labs in school, winxp/7 for myself and win8/10 for him. We didn't go to posh, expensive schools either. I think this comment parallels the same attitude that older generations take about tech issues in the linked article, where they don't feel shame for having 'poor' computer skills since they didn't grow up with it.
- benj111 4y ago
  Your point that you had pcs at school kind of proves the point though. I had a pc at school and at home, and I didn't have IT support at home. Not everyone had a pc then, but I would guess more had them than now. People now use tablets and phones, which aren't as good prep for the workplace.

hgsgm 4y ago

Gen Z uses laptops and Microsoft/Google Docs/Sheets/Slides in school.

Double_a_92 4y ago

This. Most younger people I know, only need a real PC to write essays. Which then get automatically stored on some Office365 or Google school cloud. The part about letters is not fair though, since most people also just learned it by having to write business letters.

benj111 4y ago
The skills used in writing a letter are closer to an email than a text or whatever. I'd be more confident that my gran who doesn't use a computer could compose a company wide email, compared to someone who has never had to send such a one way conversation.

sadmin 4y ago

I don't think this is the case at all, my brother and I are at opposite ends of the GenZ age scale and we both had full-on computer labs in school, winxp/7 for myself and win8/10 for him. We didn't go to posh, expensive schools either. I think this comment parallels the same attitude that older generations take about tech issues in the linked article, where they don't feel shame for having 'poor' computer skills since they didn't grow up with it.

benj111 4y ago
Your point that you had pcs at school kind of proves the point though. I had a pc at school and at home, and I didn't have IT support at home. Not everyone had a pc then, but I would guess more had them than now. People now use tablets and phones, which aren't as good prep for the workplace.