I recently read an article about the youngest IT professional, an eight-year-old gifted boy in Macedonia. Equally intrigued and alarmed, I started to wonder what today’s
workplace would be like surrounded by eight-year-old colleagues and here are a few of the possibilities I came up with:
- Business applications would be simple, intuitive and colorful
- Anything that takes longer than one minute to describe is too complicated
- Typical work day = two hours work, snack, music/recess, lunch, nap, work, bell rings and everyone goes home
- Everyone would know exactly where the others stood – kids call it like they see it
- Mandatory snack breaks
- Ideas that aren’t fun – get dumped
- Press releases would start with – Knock Knock
- Everything would be web-based – kids can’t sit in one place for too long
- Innovation would take off because kids always move onto the next thing
- Brainstorms take place on the playground
On second thought, this is starting to sound refreshing…
