Are reports of e-mail’s demise greatly exaggerated?
Again via Rob Cottingham, an intriguing article that pre-workforce Millenials (aka Gen Y, aka the Net Generation) use e-mail less than their workforce Millenial counterparts — a lot less.
- “Older workforce millenials” - 9.5 hours e-mail per week
- “Younger workforce millenials” - 7.7 hours per week
- “Pre-workforce millenials” - 2 hours per week
Will e-mail go the way of snail-mail, in fifty years — used predominately for more formal communications? Heck, when I started work in the pre-millenium, we would communicate with suppliers by fax because e-mail wasn’t considered formal / professional enough!
Apparently, most employers don’t support instant messaging or social networking sites. (At least mine is in good company! 
) And this circumstance…
“…has led over a quarter of the employees surveyed by Accenture to use technology that is unsupported and unsanctioned by their corporate IT departments.”
Woah!
Come to think of it, I know a few Millenials at work who use unsanctioned software. On the flip side, I also know a Baby Boomer who asked his Gen-X number two “what’s this Facebook thing? Is it work related? ____ was on it for seven hours yesterday.”