The great data divide: Baby boomers vs millennials

EVERY person on the planet generates a digital footprint. However, the digital footprint of baby boomers looks vastly different from that of millennials. This is due to the vast differences in how the two groups approach the use of technology, create data and save information.

Over the last seven years, data at a file level, rather than a database level, has grown by 39 per cent year on year. One key reason for this change: the average millennial stores almost twice as much data as a baby boomer, and about 30 per cent more than the average member of Generation X.

We are part of an increasingly multi-generational workforce made up of baby boomers born from 1946 to the mid-1960s, Generation X born from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s and millennials born from early 1980s to the late 1990s.