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"What Generation Z Will be Like at Work"

Posted by Penelope Trunk: "It's great fun to track trends to try to figure out what the future holds. The Generation after Gen Y is a mystery. Sort of. There are some things we know. And what we know, we know doesn't change much. For example, people thought Gen Y's sunny optimism would die down under the ardors of raising  kids, but it didn't.  And people thought Gen X's cynical, outsider approach would change when they became soccer moms, and it didn't.

So it's a safe bet that once you peg a trait in a generation, it likely won't change much over time. But it could play out in interesting ways over time. Here are some ways that the traits of Generation Z might play out in the workforce of the future.

Generation Z will not be team players...

Generation Z will be more self-directed...

Generation Z will process information at lightning speed...

Generation Z will be smarter...

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Source: Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist, 27 July 2009

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on July 28, 2009 (boomark / email).