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R. Dallon Adams, Staff Writer at TechRepublic notes, Adobe's Workfront released a report about the impact of COVID-19 on employees, the importance of workplace tech, generational differences among workers and more.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, organizations around the globe adopted
remote work policies to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. On Thursday,
Adobe's Workfront released its annual State of Work report for 2021
outlining "how COVID-19 changed digital work," generational differences
among employees, the importance of useful technology in day-to-day
workflows and more.
Photo: iStock/torwai
Overall, the report compares the results of two Center for Generational Kinetics-conducted studies. The first study was conducted in February and March of last year and the second was held eight months later in November and December. Each study involved 1,000 respondents who "worked on a computer and collaborated with other people" and were employed by a company with a minimum of 500 employees, the report said.
In the telecommuter age, remote teams have leveraged a vast suite of technologies to enable collaboration from afar...
Digital workers are more comfortable with "a variety of foundational work elements," but Gen Xers "appear to be thriving," according to the report. For example, the number of millennials who said they were comfortable with communication ideas and expression opinions increased one point, while Gen Xers reported an eight-point increase in both categories.
In terms of a person's ability to "build and reinforce trust in the workplace," millennials' comfort levels dropped three points while Gen Xers reported a four-point increase...
The report ends with a series of "takeaways" for business leaders and this includes treating "technology as a critical workforce issue."
Source: TechRepublic
