Gen Y Demands Jobs That Let Them Waste Time On Facebook
LatestThe generation currently entering the workforce can barely even remember the dark days before Al Gore invented the internet. These “digital natives” would — nay, will — have their phones implanted into their arms someday, and if they’re forced to go more than 20 minutes without checking Facebook they may start shaking uncontrollably and begging you to “like” them. It’s all terribly frightening for adults who spent their formative years playing tic-tac-toe in the dirt with a stick, but thankfully Cisco has performed a study to bridge the generational gap in the workplace.
According to CBS News, in a study of 1,400 students and 1,400 professionals ages 21 to 29 in 14 countries, Cisco found that one in three young people consider the internet to be as essential to their survival as air, water, food, and shelter. Either they’re addicted to the internet, or social studies teachers are doing a horrible job with that “needs versus wants” lesson in the first week of 6th grade. The respondents said they value the internet far more than any other type of technology, with only one in 10 saying TV is the most important device they own. The results were even more dismal for books. One in five students said they hadn’t bought a physical book in two years, signaling that one day people will be trying to comb their hair with books, Little Mermaid-style.