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I have not been to a 7x24 Exchange Conference for three years and I am going to the Fall 2022 conference in San Antonio, Oct 23-26.
This conference will be an opportunity to see what is new and compare it to what has been covered in the past. Some things stay the same which can be good. And seeing what has changed and why can provide insight to the problems solved and future changes.
BBC has an article on Gen Z achieving burnout in only 2 years.
Part of their stress is they have less invested in the work environment
Although all generations might be juggling high volumes of work, Gen Z has the least “workplace capital”
How many of you thing that the youngest are already achieving burnout?
The youngest employees are already feeling pressured and exhausted – even in the earliest stages of their careers.
The past 2 years of Covid have made it extremely hard for the Gen Z.
Dec 26, 2019 Gary Starkweather left us. Reflecting on what Gary has done and how he did had going over various documents written about Gary and watching his YouTube video on inventing the laser printer. Out of all all the inventions that came out of Xerox PARC the laser printer is the one that Xerox as a company benefited from its going to market. Why?
Because Gary was one only one who started with the problem of how to improve a Xerox Copier and realized he could turn it Into a digital printer of originals. Gary used the Xerography copier analog components and he bolted on the laser, optics, and electronics to make a digital transformation. Laser printing digital transformed printing as a new business process.
Digital transformation is used a lot as a term for change and justifying acquisition of new technologies. But few come close to what Gary did. It took 10 years for Gary’s idea of a laser printer to ship. There is much to learn from his efforts and what helps learning is to figure out how to explain what he did.
StaceyOnIOT has a nice post on how AR and IOT are used to improve the training process during these times of Covid.
The end result is good.
Wileman said that the company hires some 50 new people a year and saves about $1,200 per employee in training costs. So while PBC still has a hiring challenge, it is able to use IoT, robotics, and AR to get new staff trained more quickly and at a lower cost, which makes it less painful when those staff members eventually leave.
And the nice thing is the AR is being used to harvest the knowledge of the experienced.
AR helps scale the expertise held by an older employee or the maker of the machine by turning that expertise into software and sharing it, via heads-up displays, to any new worker.
With Covid AR and VR are all getting more traction.
The Verge has a post making the observation that the Gen Z as a group do not use files and folders the way past have done. The last paragraph highlights the change.
His advice to fellow educators: Get ready. “This is not gonna go away,” he says. “You’re not gonna go back to the way things were. You have to accept it. The sooner that you accept that things change, the better.”
What is the change? Many more students do not think like paper processes which has files and folders. The concept of a file cabinet is obsolete like a fax machine.
Professors have a hard time with this issue.
It’s a difficult concept to get across, though. Directory structure isn’t just unintuitive to students — it’s so intuitive to professors that they have difficulty figuring out how to explain it. “Those of us who have been around a while know what a file is, but I was at a bit of a loss to explain it,”
There are so many things that Gen Z does differently than the older people and getting Gen Z to do things the way things have always been done will just get harder.