While seen as the most tech-savvy group of employees, younger generations are more likely to stick to traditional platforms to get work done
Smartsheet, the platform for enterprise achievement, announced that despite being more tech fluent, 95% of Generation Z and 93% of Millennial workers report difficulty working from home as a result of COVID-19, according to a survey of professionals conducted by ENGINE INSIGHTS and commissioned by Smartsheet.
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“To be effective, people need to stay deeply connected to their work and the work of their teams. They also need context, structure, tracking, and visibility into their work. Providing those things is more important now than ever.”
Key findings include:
- Three-fourths of the American workforce feels less connected; young workers especially so with 82% of Generation Z and 81% of Millennials reporting this issue.
- Sixty percent of American workers feel less informed about what is going on within their company since they started working from home. Young workers feel it the most, with 74% of Generation Z and 66% of Millennials reporting this, versus 53% of Generation X and 50% of Boomers.
While communication tools have a role in connecting employees across an organization, young workers have identified video calls as an obstacle to their productivity. Sixty-one percent of Generation Z and 57% of Millennials say the amount of time spent on video calls each day is making it hard to get work done. Comparatively, 35% of Generation X and 26% of Baby Boomers say the same, illustrating a gap between the older and younger segments of the workforce.
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“This research shows that the key to helping remote workers cope with the current circumstance, and thriving in the longer-term, goes far beyond simply connecting people and teams through video-based technology,” said Smartsheet CEO Mark Mader. “To be effective, people need to stay deeply connected to their work and the work of their teams. They also need context, structure, tracking, and visibility into their work. Providing those things is more important now than ever.”
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