Here in the Netherlands many (middle) schools have banned them by now, just in time for my son to enter school. Looking forward to him having nice conversations

Here in the Netherlands many (middle) schools have banned them by now, just in time for my son to enter school. Looking forward to him having nice conversations with his schoolmates. I hope his generation is not like some of the students we got at our company who join the lunches but picked seats at the very edge of the table and had their eyes on their screen the whole time. Yes, every youngster has some fears communicating with people experienced in their proffssion of choice, but it is up to the experience people to engage with them and up to them to do the same. Locking themselves out of conversations during lunch is not a habit that builds good and valuable relations with colleagues. It really feels like these youngsters are addicted, or at least they are not in the habit of joining conversations, lacking the skill as everyone does at the start, but now also a method available to avoid honing those skills.