Dan Ness, Principal Analyst, MetaFacts, February 4, 2024
Summary
The practice of working across the web using collaborative platforms such as Google Docs has remained largely unchanged since 2018. Among millennials in China and the US, the activity has even decreased. Gen Z adults across most countries surveyed have the highest or second-highest penetration rates.
This MetaFAQs reports on the percentage of online adults who regularly collaborate on work files in the US, Germany, the UK, Japan, and China split by age generation.
Collaborating on work files has only crept into later generations
- There’s a corporate motivational statement: Teamwork makes the dream work. Gen Z adults in the UK and Germany appear to be taking this more to heart than earlier generations
- The regular use of collaborative platforms has not substantially changed since 2018, except for nominal growth in Germany and China’s Gen Z and Gen X adults
- In the US, Japan, and China, Gen Z adults are just as likely or less likely than millennials to have the highest shares of those regularly using collaborative platforms for work-related files
- Across all countries surveyed, the Boomer/Silent generations have the lowest levels of work file collaboration
Tables – 200 WFHxAGEGEN & 620 ACT_PRODxAGEGEN
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Indexing
Lenses: User Profile; Activities; Work/Life Balance
Tables: 200 WFHxAGEGEN Work from Home/Remote work by Age Generations – TUP 2023; 620 ACT_PRODxAGEGEN Personal/Productivity Activities by Age Generations – TUP 2023
Tags: Activities, Age, Age generations, Boomers, Baby Boomers, Business market, Collaboration, Communication, Commercial, Employees, Gen X, Gen Z, Home PC activities, Millennials, Remote workers, Remote working, Telework, Teleworkers, Trends, WFH, Work from home, Work-related activities, Work/Life Balance
Waves: TUP 2018; TUP 2019; TUP 2020; TUP 2021; TUP 2022; TUP 2023
Item: TUP_doc_2024_0204_colt