Amid COVID-19 pandemic, a lot of things are on people's plates. Three major things that people do in these long months of lockdown is to keep working, to keep body in good shape, or to learn something that you didn't know before. Surprisingly, a recent survey from Boxboat shows that 44% of the population of over 60s are now studying technology more than ever before. Here come your techy grannys!
Who leveled up their tech skills?
Boxboat, a DevOps company that helps companies reach their target quota through tech, recently released a survey of what people are doing today amid lockdown.
Technology, as their main target focus, has shown a high knowledge level among those people that are stuck at home. Over 70% of people said their technology skills moderately or greatly improved since the COVID-19 pandemic. That includes 72% of millennials, 70% of Generation X, and 56% of baby boomers.
Surprisingly, almost half of the population who admitted of levelling up their skills come from ages over the 60s or the baby boomers.Software proficiency is the number one overall area of technology that was improved by this population. Second is the telecommunication proficiency.
On average, people spent 7.2 hours per week improving their tech skills amid pandemic. The survey was made out of 1,009 people in the population.
Grandpas are now studying tech more than you do
It is no surprising fact that older people are not so keen about today's technology. After all, generally speaking, baby boomers do not really love to play tricks on the computer to know how apps works, and so on.
Boxboat said that baby boomers are considerably less likely to report any tech improvement; still, over half said they were more skilled now than they were before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Apparently, this new knowledge must be given credits to video-streaming site Youtube. As per the Boxboat survey, Youtube was the largest contributor and source of people when it comes to learning new things, especially in technology.
Millennials were the most likely to turn to YouTube, but even over half of Gen X and baby boomers turned to the free video-sharing site for their tech education.
Not so shocking, but people also refuse to pay for online lessons amid pandemic. Only 23% pay for online lessons while 40% go to free online courses. These usually shell out from online blogs, articles, etc.
Asking for guidance on other people is also one of the biggest contributors to the research. Around 16% of Gen X respondents turned to their children, compared to 11% of baby boomers and only 8% of millennials. All three generations readily turned to friends and family members, though,with friends (24%) being a more likely a resource than family (13%).
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Written by Jamie Pancho
