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Millennials? Use of Technology: Accenture Global Report

By Agnese Caruso

Accenture’s new report “Jumping the boundaries of corporate IT: Accenture global research on Millennials’ use of technology” looks at how Millennials across the world use IT. For this report, Accenture surveyed over 5,000 employees and students, ages 14-27, in 13 countries in the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Interesting findings include:

• Millennials in the Americas and Asia-Pacific have very positive perceptions of technology, whereas most of them in Europe think that technology takes up too much time.
• Chinese Millennials spend the most time using real-time communication tools for both work and personal use.
• Millennials want to choose what technologies they use at work, especially in emerging markets.
• Millennials increasingly choose their employer based on access to leading technology.
• Millennials routinely bypass corporate approval when using devices and applications.

The report concludes with ways management teams can benefit from the survey findings. The report suggests the following:

• Adapt IT policies to deal with generational diversity.
• Accelerate experiments with social networking.
• Bridge the generation gap.

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on February 23, 2010 (boomark / email).