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CIOs: Learn the wireless, workaholic ways of Gen Y

By:  Shane Schick On: 07 Jan 2009 For: CIO Creator

Employees aged 18 to 29 are likely connected for most of the day to a mobile device, and putting in more office hours even once the office closes. Are CIOs prepared to support them? Fourth of a five-part series

CIOs: Learn the wireless, workaholic ways of Gen Y
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Generation Y employees may not have much time for IT usage policies, but many of them spend long periods outside of office hours doing work on their personal or home computers, according to a national study conducted by IT World Canada and Harris/Decima.

Out of more than 1,000 individuals between the ages of 18 and 29 who were surveyed, 23 per cent said they spend at least an hour a day in some work-related activity on a home computer, while 12 per cent said they spend two to five hours. That’s on top of the six to 10 hours 52 per cent of respondents said they using computers at work for work-related purposes. The numbers were revealed as part of Freedom to Compute: The Empowerment of Generation Y, which explores the generation gap around IT and includes comments from both the CIO and CEO communities.



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Shane Schick Shane Schick is the Editor-in-Chief of IT World Canada, a media company that brings together communities of technology professionals.     Shane joined the IT Business Group in 1997 as a sta... more

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