It is difficult to work in an office with older employees that do not understand technology. Things are changing very fast in the technology sector, and to stay at one place is to stay behind. Businesses want to move forward with useful tech innovations, and older employees with a fear of technology make them cramped and slothful.
If you are an employee with a fear of technology, if you are someone who hears a computer’s telltale sound or even free music ringtones on a next generation cell phone and gets a palpitation, ask yourself – am I losing my usefulness at my office? Is my fear hindering my work and the future of our company? An honest answer will may be yes.
If you will just consider how quickly children learn new technology and become more proficient than their parents with tech gadgets, you will learn something. You will learn that adapting to technology is all about mindset. If you do not have a clear approach to technology, if you do not have a tabula rasa, so to say, when it comes to technology, you will never learn it quickly or thoroughly. If you are comfortable doing old things the old way, technology is not going to work for you.
However, there are so many things that a little technology can make easier. Just take typing as an example. Remember composing a legal document on a typewriter? The forceful use of fingers on those inelegant keys, the manual movement of the lever, the typos and the whitener to remove them, and most important, the lack of a method by which to “store” the typed data for later editing. These were the banes of typing, and each of these is eliminated by the computer.
So, why not try to use one? After all, it will only make you faster.




