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Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”– Henry Ford. Cloud environment can help retain distracted Gen Ys. Retaining Generation Y (Gen Y) employees is an increasingly big human resource (HR) challenge due to these workers' short attention span, but organizations that run internal cloud-based platforms can engage and sustain their interest and retain young talent longer.
Aaron Au, co-founder and CTO of cloud-based HR software maker SuccessFactors, described this short attention span as a "psychological problem" that is typical of Gen Y employees because these workers, since young, have been exposed to a wide array of rapidly-developing technologies. SuccessFactors was acquired by SAP in December last year. These technologies, which range from television to computer games and social media, have over-stimulated Gen Y brains at a young age and as a result, these young workers are unable to keep focused for a long time on anything in their lives, Au explained.
Every organization also has a different culture, he said.
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