A 2015 Gallup Poll found that Millennials are the least engaged cohort in the workplace, with only 28.9% saying that they are engaged at work. This, combined with high turnover rates and greater freelance and entrepreneurial opportunities, means that if companies want to retain these valued workers, they will have to double their efforts to meet Millennials where they are
Motivating Millennials Takes More than Flexible Work Policies - 0 views
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A 2015 report on Millennials from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce emphasized flex-time as one way to do this — it found that three out of four Millennials reported that work-life balance drives their career choice
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Multiple studies have revealed that Millennials are keen to see their work as addressing larger societal concerns
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Key factors that influences Millennials' workplace choices and keep them loyal
The Benefits of Workplace Sabbaticals - Experteer Magazine - 0 views
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Many firms, including 25 percent of Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For, now offer sabbaticals. These typically four- to 10-week pauses allow employees time out to focus on their needs instead of the organization’s.
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Most organizations offer sabbaticals to employees who have been there for a certain period of time (at least five to seven years is common), and employees may take multiple sabbaticals so long as they work a minimum number of years in between. This provides an incentive for workers to remain at a company longer.
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Adobe Systems encourages its employees to use their breaks to do volunteer work. Then they promote the good deeds in the Adobe Life magazine, a website directed at attracting new talent. Companies that have formal career pauses advertise them as part of the benefits package, like Boston Consulting Group’s Time For You/Flexleave program, which allows workers with just 12-months of time onboard to take an eight-week unpaid break to recharge.
Солнечные батареи - 0 views
Leaders Need To Bridge The Generation Gap - Forbes - 0 views
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Now, it is the Millennials’ turn to be the whipping boys, and girls. Their attitudes are in sharp contrast with those of the Boomers who are increasingly running the organizations where they work. While Boomers believe strongly in the value of experience and working your way up, Millennials are seen as feeling entitled and over-pampered by parents only too well aware of how challenging the workplace has become for those who are not sufficiently prepared
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Millennials are significantly more likely to ask for a pay rise and a promotion than their counterparts in either of the preceding generations
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they are also rather more likely than their elders to complain of long hours.
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How to Approach the Generation Gap in the Workplace - The New York Times - 0 views
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A generation gap is widening in the workplace. As baby boomers (ages 51 to 69 or so) express reluctance about retiring, so-called millennials (roughly ages 18 to 34) have become the single largest demographic in the American labor force. Because of this, more older workers have found themselves being hired and managed by people much younger than they are
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Robert Goldfarb, 85, a working management consultant. “The moment I enter the office of a prospective client, there’s an elephant in the room,” he wrote. “My age.”
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I doubt anyone will be surprised to hear that many readers emphasized staying current with technology. Many also pointed out that this is easier to do than ever: From instructional YouTube videos to courses at your local library, the resources are endless.
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The article explores the opposite side of the generation conflict - when older people are hired or happen to work for bosses twice younger then themselves. The set of good advices on how to apply your experience and wisdom in the organizations ruled by 30-somethings
How to Bridge the Workplace Generation Gap - 0 views
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The workplace has traditionally consisted of “old-timers” with 20 to 30 years of experience under their belts and the young “hot-shots” who know-it-all. The younger workers have historically viewed older workers as stuck in their ways.
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an article focusses on how to benefit from the multiple generations in one organization and lead them to work together for the success of the organization
How Flexible Hours Can Harm Employees As Much As It Helps Them | Fast Company | Busines... - 0 views
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Employees love workplace flexibility, and employers should, too, since it's linked with increased productivity and higher job satisfaction.
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Some new behavioral evidence suggests that some bosses will harbor biases against employees with flexible work schedules without even realizing it.
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So in the eyes of a boss, a late-arriving worker may be no different from a bad worker
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Give Me a Break: Why Businesses Should Consider Workplace Sabbaticals | IRIS - 0 views
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With technology keeping us connected around-the-clock, the divide between our professional and personal lives continue to be blurred.
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A workplace sabbatical would provide eligible full-time employees with a pre-determined schedule for taking extended time off to pursue personal interests or to be with family.
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Not only would your employees be recharged by virtue of a sabbatical, but they would be very clear that their company cares about their well-being and not just the bottom-line.
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we all deserve a break... with Millennials entering the workplace corporate HR policies might consider radical perks or benefit packages fro the new workforce, that is looking for a more fulfilling life experiences
Machines Are Better Than Humans at Hiring the Best Employees - Bloomberg Business - 4 views
Facebook will give video makers a cut - 0 views
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"There's a certain class of content which is only going to come onto Facebook if there's a good way to compensate content owners for that,"
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"We've recently rolled out the business model for this. We'll give a revenue share on a portion of the views to content owners
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To grasp the scope of change unraveling in content creation, which is increasingly fragmented, consider all the mobile apps on your smartphone.
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social media is rapidly moving towards serving as a one-stop destination for all consumer media needs
These 3D-Printed Pictures Could Help the Blind Experience Classic Art - 0 views
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technology meets empathy
Instagram Testing 3D Touch Ads - 1 views
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says the move by Instagram is part of an ongoing initiative to add more e-commerce features to the platform, as well as more ways to display and interact with products
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"Mobile commerce is definitely a space we are looking at closely.
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Instagram has become increasingly more interested in advertising and has deployed a variety of new products and ad formats for advertisers.
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Instagram is testing tools that might make it the e-comemerce platform of the future
Star Wars Characters Will Now Teach Your Kids To Code | WIRED - 1 views
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Today, as part of its annual Hour of Code event, Code.org is launching a free online tutorial that prompts kids to build their own games, based on characters in the upcoming Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
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where they’ll learn to write code to design their own games featuring characters like R2-D2 ad C-3PO.
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Of the 5 million students currently registered on Code.org, around 2 million are girls and around 2 million are black or Hispanic.
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New collaboration between Code.org that spread the popularity of coding among kids and Disney. This time featuring SW franchise
YouTube's Grand Plan to Make VR Accessible to Everybody | WIRED - 0 views
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Today, YouTube is unveiling 360-degree virtual reality videos and a virtual movie theater for all YouTube videos, available to anyone with a Google Cardboard headset. The goal is to “democratize virtual reality” and “bring VR to everybody
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expects that library of content to grow “very rapidly,” especially as the company works with YouTube creators to get more VR content up on the platform
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But Facebook, its biggest competitor, is rapidly encroaching on YouTube’s turf.
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Meanwhile in the Future: Everybody Is Reviewed in a Reputation Database - 2 views
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Recently, an app called Peeple got a whole lot of attention for trying to be the Yelp for Humans
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But what would it be like if we lived in a world where everything you do is subject to a rating doled out by a combination of machines and other people?
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Michael Fertik, the founder of Reputation.com and the author of the book The Reputation Economy, talks on the episode about all the ways that brands and companies are already compiling your information into a profile that helps them make decisions about you. Linkedin, AirBnB, Uber, they’re all gathering what Fertik calls your “digital exhaust” to learn more about you
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Most preschoolers use tablets, smartphones daily - WDAM-TV 7-News, Weather, Sports-Hatt... - 2 views
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The study of 350 children in a low-income, minority community suggests that an income-based "digital divide" is shrinking.
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some parents might be using technology as a surrogate babysitter.
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The older the children were, the more likely they were to have their own technology.
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Mobile technologies are getting close to infant ages though might be dangerous as surrogate babysitting.
MIT Scientists Create Wireless Device That Allows Us To See Through Walls - 1 views
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Scientists have created a new device that allows people to see through walls
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it can "determine where you are, who you are, and even which hand you are moving
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feature that allows the device to contact emergency services if a family member falls on the floor
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New device can see through walls to monitor & locate family members positioning and operate home entertainment depending on your location.
The Personal Blog of Zack Kanter - How Uber's Autonomous Cars Will Destroy 10 Million J... - 1 views
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. Autonomous cars will be commonplace by 2025 and have a near monopoly by 2030
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They will cause unprecedented job loss and a fundamental restructuring of our economy, solve large portions of our environmental problems, prevent tens of thousands of deaths per year, save millions of hours with increased productivity, and create entire new industries that we cannot even imagine from our current vantage point.
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Morgan Stanley’s research shows that cars are driven just 4% of the time,5 which is an astonishing waste considering that the average cost of car ownership is nearly $9,000 per year.6
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an article about autonomous transportation and how disruptive they might be not only for the car and transport industry but for entire economy
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