I’m on-line with my distance learning students in TMGT 7200 Management Information Systems in Transportation discussing the future. One of my students, using a subject line of “Lazy Culture,” has written:
I can definitely relate to the gap in the workplace but the issue I want to bring up is not so an issue of gap between old school and new generation but rather an issue of workplace gap where people are so involved in technology which allows them to do more in less time that often times there is no company spirit or friendly workplace environment. People are getting lazy to be human. Now its too hard to stop at someones desk and talk but most common way is to send an e-mail to person who sits right next to you.
She describes what I consider to be the dark side of technology, the decline in critical social relationships. Furthermore, and perhaps more worrying, is the tendency to believe that if you have shot off an e-mail you have completed your responsibilities with respect to communication. How many times have many of us encountered the phrase; “But I sent you an e-mail?” Or; “Sorry, I did’t see your e-mail?”
Technology has become a convenient scapegoat for our failure to accept the responsibility that communication is more than message flow, it is achieving understanding.
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