The franchise looks at the future of millennials in today’s employment.
With ‘baby-boomers’ close to retirement. businesses are looking at “how they are going to keep millennials engaged”, said the article, which went on to say that by introducing the mobile workforce the “transition had already begun”. Sara Sutton Fell, CEO for Flexjobs, said in an article for Fast Company that it was estimated that “99 percent of white collar employees work remotely at some point”, and that could include checking emails on the way to work or taking work home.
She added that “by 2025 75 percent of millennials will compose the workforce”, according to a recent survey, and according to Pew Research this generation will shape businesses “across all industries in a very short window of time” – this was attributed to the “influence of immigration in the US”.
Mobile and digital technologies tend to define the behaviour of this generation as they “grew up with computers” and technology from Samsung and Apple, resulting in a connected young workforce who use their smartphones to “carry out day-to-day” jobs, and some businesses have a policy of “bring your own device” to work.
Millennials want to work remotely or from the office but not do both, and Fell argued that “it’s a mistake to set up [the] dichotomy” of both. In another article, Fell used data from a study in 2015 for Flexjobs that found that “85 percent of millennials want to telecommute all of the time”, whereas another 54 percent wanted a “flexible schedule”, which shows that they place high value on flexibility in the workplace and “especially in terms of remote work”.
Looking to the future, businesses will need to invest more in digital and mobile technologies to “empower millennial workers”, and adjust workplace ethos and procedures. Cartridge World said that it had “anticipated this growing trend”, and had developed its PrintWorld app with this in mind.