We are not all equal in the face of our wonderful digital tools and benefit from the feats - sometimes to be put into perspective - that they can accomplish for us.
And this is not just a matter of generation, whether you are Y, Z or rather senior.
If some of our comrades handle their smartphones or tablets with as much ease and grace as a fencer spins his foil, others are more reluctant to flicker between their mobile applications!
It is not always a categorical refusal to rub shoulders with new technologies, but simply the difficulty sometimes in grasping their real usefulness.
Not to mention that their handling is sometimes strewn with pitfalls.
But we get to the end of it with a helping hand from more skilled office colleagues ...
Read also: "The people who matter in the office" # 40: The hypocrite!
There is a more complex case: that of the digital-skeptic of open-space.
He doesn't just refuse to use new digital tools: he explains to anyone who wants to hear him that he doesn't need
“all that”
to do a good job!
Often mature, this stubborn, even stubborn specimen has a favorite application: his mailbox.
Sometimes he uses Microsoft Word.
But that's all.
Do you want to teach him the benefits of a new application to communicate more easily?
"Don't you want us to continue with texting instead?"
Wondering why he never turns off his computer when he leaves?
It wasn't provocative: he just never wondered how to do it.
In its worst, most extreme variation, the bad faith of the digital-skeptic goes as far as this observation, which he has been
staunchly
supporting
since 2002: the internet is a fad and, like any fad, it will eventually pass!
This is when the happiness of the world before will return at a gallop.
Does that make you smile?
Him, not at all.
It remains to be seen if he will one day change his mind ...
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