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How Is Your Workplace Changing?
By Andrew Walsh on Wednesday, June 11, 2008.
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This Tuesday (6/17) on Word of Mouth, we're going to look at the way the American workplace is changing. The Millennial Generation is graduating from college and joining the workforce while the baby boomers are retiring later and holding onto their jobs longer. This makes for a mix of employees who span many years and several generations. As people with different work styles and communication styles begin to team up, it’s going to change the face of the modern workplace. We’ll look at that, and other aspects of job culture, including the role fun and games should play in the office and the new trend of co-working spaces for those who work alone.
We’d like to hear your thoughts on the changing workplace: Have you noticed a shift in your company’s culture? Has your office changed over the past several years? If you’re new to the workforce, are you surprised by what you find there? Or, if you’ve been working for a while, do you find yourself pushing retirement further and further into the future? Why?
Leave us your comments below, and we’ll share them on the air. You can also call our listener line at (603) 223-2448.
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-- It's the Managers I have problems with. American companies are managed by very obtuse, foolish and ossified or gentrified or corporatized "Company Men" -- and Women -- who are beyond incompetent. If you are an "Idea Man" as I am, you get shown the door very early in your job or career. But then, I am Left Handed as Well, and Italian by Heritage, so the Homogenized Money Makers of Corporate America have more than one Reason to Hire and Promote the Young People, over Me. I might actually Understand What Is Going On, and Heaven Forfend, know what to do about it.
All the new generation people at my workplace prefer working at one big communal table like a high school cafeteria study hall. And with music playing. It seems disconcerting to me, hard to concentrate--I have tried it. Will they crave offices as they get older? That sort of boundary works for me because it helps me concentrate. And I like the notion of privacy...
It used to be terribly important to all be in one place and have regular weekly all-hands meetings. Now I've got 25 people in Berlin, 2 in Dover, 1 in Kittery, 1 in Chicago and I live in Durham. Despite my misgivings, the company is running better than the last one and its alot easier to retain talent.