Gen Y Workers Reinventing IT for the Better

buzzardsbay writes "We all know the complaints about young employees. They depend too much on their parents' money, they need constant hand-holding, they have no job loyalty, they demand more than they're worth, they disrespect older employees, and they're naive about corporate culture. But despite this conventional wisdom, there's growing evidence that the different working styles of Gen Y workers might be causing fundamental — and beneficial — changes in the way enterprises run, especially when it comes to IT. For example, they may show better judgment when making tech purchases and are often better with green IT initiatives. This is a nice counterpoint to a previous story (and resulting incendiary comments) that dubbed young tech workers a risk to corporate networks."

Comments

Re:Generalizing Generations

[Kamineko]

How does it stack up against Star Trek: Generations?

Re:Generalizing Generations

[Infonaut]

How does it stack up against Star Trek: Generations?

Less shooting, less baldness, less special effects, a lot more text.

Re:Job Loyalty? How about orker loyalty?

[Ethanol-fueled]

"90% of my job is convincing you that you don't deserve yours"

--Catbert, evil director of human resources

Re:Job Loyalty? How about orker loyalty?

[cayenne8]

"You want to talk about ridiculous hours? Come back when you've spent 36 hours over the span of two days in a 63 degree datacenter without so much as a chair.

This is exactly the attitude that gets your IT staff pissed off. When half of their work can only be performed after everyone else has gone home for the day and are on call 24/7 for whenever something goes wrong, believe me, you certainly don't trump them."

You know...if someone is holding a GUN to your head forcing you to do this....PLEASE call the police.