With the arrival of 2025 the trend is that, in the professional scope, let our bets on what we will solve now and what you can “also” remain later. For the leaders of the companies, I bring a theme on the future of the work that must enter the list of what will be resolved in the present: today we have five generations who work simultaneously and that, I believe, do not understand each other.
These are the groups called Silent Generation (1927-1945), Baby Boomer (1946-1964), Generation X (1965-1980), generation Y or Millennials (1981-1996) and The New Arrowing Z (1997-2010). There has never been an intersection of five layers of distinct generations who had to do business and provide results together.
Do you think you have a professional from Tiktok generation in the same meeting room and one of the ball era. In addition to being different people, they have completely different opinions on success, fun and purpose. However, they must collaborate to make a decision on the implementation of a technological project.
If the labor market was in the Upper Sea, I would say that this is the time to sink or navigate. These conflicts, impractical, communication difficulties and line of thoughts between generations already have an impact on the financial results of various organizations. According to a study conducted by the development of the Astd workforce in collaboration with Vitalsmarts, one third of companies all theoretical hours per week to resolve generational conflicts in the workplace, which represents a reduction in productivity of about 12%. Another survey, conducted by Infojobs, shows that 62% of people have already faced situations of conflict between generations.
And the lack of connection, whether it works with the aim of the work, only aggravates this scenario. A recent Gallup study stresses that 70% of employees in Brazil is unhappy and dissatisfied with their employment. You don’t even have to enter the discussion on the number of hours worked to conclude that a busy employee contributes more and better than a disgust. Now imagine five different, disgusting generations, who need to collaborate to “get off the other side”. It is a revenue for the erosion of the performance and culture of any company.
Artificial intelligence plays a double role in this scenario. On the one hand, it has the potential to free humans from repetitive tasks and increase the level of intellectual contribution to businesses. On the other hand, their applications can exacerbate existing challenges, controlling the real contribution of people, expanding the disparity between generations and giving light to the lack of alignment in organizations. But, if instead of increasing generational differences, could artificial intelligence be used to drastically increase cognitive diversity, the collaboration of generations and the commitment of workers?
Over the course of history, technological progress have mainly expanded human skills. Today, the use of the AI ​​allows you to deeply map the members of an organization, creating a sort of “ray x” of the human potential of each individual. Therefore, through your experiences, knowledge, skills and way of being and working, we can allocate and connect them in an intelligent and productive way, giving light to mutual potential for their generation, area or function.
It is a matter of using technology to exploit differences and create production and collaborative teams, promoting synergies and innovation. Ironically, these cutting tools contribute so that they can see better what makes us unique and therefore truly human.
But nobody said it would be easy. By the end of the day, the challenge that must go to the list of problems to be solved is already to overcome the barrier of the connection and the collaboration of human intelligence, only then can we collaborate with artificial intelligence. And the time to solve it is now, because the generations Alfa (2010-2024) and Beta come there.
Ricardo Rocha (26) is CEO and co-founder of Chance, startups with intelligence solutions that combines skills; And Gary Bolles (68) is a global expert and president of the future of work at Singularity University.
Source: Terra
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