When picturing
the future workplace, one cannot help but to consider that it will be a
location that is a direct result of the trends already sweeping
through today's modern office.
One trend that is
already well established is people’s attitudes towards discrimination, which
have evolved over time. Upon analysis of
the generations in America, one can easily see striking differences between their
lifestyles, which has greatly influenced their attitudes towards
discrimination. Baby boomers, and the
silent generation before them, had minimal access to hundreds of cultures known
to the world. This lack of knowledge is
one of the biggest reasons why discrimination was more present in those
generations.
This is in direct
contrast to the Millennials, because we have technologic advances that make
virtually the entire world’s population available at our fingertips. This access will only grow over the next 20
years, and beyond, and because of that discrimination will continue to shrink
because the population will become more and more aware of the various
lifestyles and cultures. This knowledge
will spill directly over to the workplace, which will have much more diversity,
another result of this. Diversity will
become a cornerstone in the foundation of the minimal discrimination that will
happen in the workplace in 2033, 2053, 3000 and even further.
