‘Scanners are complicated’: why Gen Z faces workplace ‘tech shame’
How is this different from other generations that struggle with scanners? I’ve worked for almost 30 years and there’s always been a sizable portion of the office who can’t work scanners and copiers.<p>About 5 years ago, I was in a budget planning meeting and a senior level colleague (probably about 65) was advocating for hiring contractors to print out her meeting materials for her. She would have spent about $75k&#x2F;year to print, collate, scan and organize paper. I showed her how to do these things through the print settings as our printer would do all that automatically.<p>I think printers are complicated because they can do a lot. Many people don’t want to go through training and don’t want to spend time going through and testing lots of nested properties. I don’t think it’s a gen z, or millennial, or gen X, or baby boomer, or lost generation thing.