30 Years of Workforce Transformation Visualized

With all of the buzz about the digital transformation of today’s workforce, it’s easy to start to tune out. The ability to move fluidly between work and life that technology makes possible can be taken for granted.

Illustration of future workers

Research shows that 42 percent of millennial workers say they would quit a job with substandard technology, and 82 percent say workplace technology influences the job they will take.

Oh, if they only knew how far we’ve come during just my time in the workforce!

“I was actually in college in 1987 and right around that time I had my first experience with a PC,” Dell CMO Jeremy Burton said recently at Dell EMC World. “And we thought that a 10 megabit-per-second hardwire connection was just awesome!”

To help you visualize that, along with other statistics he shared, we’ve created this infographic on workforce transformation over the past 30 years.

And for more visuals, you can watch the full “Realize Workforce Transformation” general session replay on the Dell EMC World event website.

Workforce Transformation infographic by Dell

About the Author: Laura Pevehouse

Laura Pevehouse was profiled as one of five “social media mavens” in the March 2009 issue of Austin Woman Magazine and named an AdWeek’s TweetFreak Five to Follow. She has been part of the Dell organization for more than 15 years in various corporate communications, employee communications, public relations, community affairs, marketing, branding, social media and online communication roles. From 2014-2018, Laura was Chief Blogger/Editor-in-Chief for Direct2DellEMC and Direct2Dell, Dell’s official corporate blog that she help launch in 2007. She is now a member of the Dell Technologies Chairman Communications team. Earlier in her Dell career she focused on Global Commercial Channels and US Small and Medium Business public relations as part of the Global Communications team. Prior to that, she was responsible for global strategy in social media and community management, as well as marcom landing pages, as a member of Dell’s Global SMB Marketing, Brand and Creative team. When she was part of Dell’s Global Online group, Laura provided internal consulting that integrated online and social media opportunities with a focus on Corporate Communications and Investor Relations. She managed the home page of Dell.com, one of the top 500 global web sites in Alexa traffic rank, and first brought web feeds and podcasts to the ecommerce site. In her spare time she led Dell into the metaverse with the creation of Dell Island in the virtual world Second Life. Laura has earned the designation of Accredited Business Communicator from the International Association of Business Communicators, and received her Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from Louisiana State University. Before joining Dell Financial Services in 2000, she worked at the Texas Workforce Commission and PepsiCo Food Systems Worldwide.