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Maybe this is more of a lagging generational tooling thing. When I entered the workforce as an 16 year old, I used popular tools like TeamSpeak, Ventrilo, Tril
by thenerdhead 4y ago
Maybe this is more of a lagging generational tooling thing.
When I entered the workforce as an 16 year old, I used popular tools like TeamSpeak, Ventrilo, Trillian, xFire, mIRC, and more. The workforce was stuck using email and in-person meetings.
Now, the workforce is using similar concepts to those popular tools I would use all built into a single platform known as Slack/Teams/etc. I'm in the peak years of my career 30 y/o+ and thrive on these tools.
But maybe gen z is used to other tools like Discord, OBS, TikTok, etc. Slack/Teams doesn't exactly transfer over 1:1 to these tools. So they have to learn the lagging way until the leading way becomes the new way?
To say they are not tech-savvy seems very odd. They are especially tech-savvy, just not with the current tools.
- wink 4y agoI'd say I've been an early Discord user (not a huge fan, but a seasoned user nevertheless) and I don't get what fundamental difference to slack there would be. Except that the longer I use Slack the less I hate it and it's the opposite for Discord.
- thenerdhead 4y agoI think each of these apps have different working models and cultures surrounding them. I'm constantly surprised of how people contribute in discord in comparison to Teams / Slack. Perhaps there's less barriers with tools that are more comfortable for the users?