Everyday office life
Around a quarter of Generation X have problems
A good 26 percent of Generation X have difficulties with their new day-to-day work.
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A survey shows: 26 percent of Generation X have difficulties with their everyday work in the corona pandemic.
26 percent of Generation X, who were born between 1965 and 1980, have had increasing problems with their new everyday work since the beginning of the corona pandemic. This is the result of a survey commissioned by Workforce, a company of the US tech giant Adobe, for which more than 1,000 Germans were asked shortly before the pandemic and again in December 2020. According to this, 21 percent of millennials are particularly struggling with new technologies.
Bad communication
The study also shows that 65 percent of older workers have felt impaired in communicating suggestions and ideas since the beginning of the pandemic. Half of the employees have a difficult situation due to poor communication with their work colleagues. The picture is clearly different in the USA and Great Britain. Gen X has therefore come to terms better with the new conditions and is even making higher demands on the technical equipment in the workplace than many of their younger colleagues. In Germany, on the other hand, older employees oriented their demands on the employer more towards values such as salary.
Millennials (44 percent), in contrast to Gen X (35 percent), find it more important to do a job that fulfills them – and less of what is on the pay slip. In other respects, too, they increasingly have different wishes for a job than their older colleagues. While in Generation X around 16 percent have turned down a job offer because of outdated technology at a workplace, it is 29 percent among millennials. According to this, 23 percent of the younger ones even quit a company because they felt restricted by the technology made available there. In Generation X, however, it is only twelve percent.