I actually think it's a realistic more than defeatist attitude.  But
then I would: it's my opinion and I like to consider myself a glass is
half full kind of woman.  

I agree with Wayne that in the past there has been a very definite split
between work behaviour and outside work behaviour but if any of you are
under 25 yourselves or have staff under 25 you'll know that is changing
and changing fast.  People of that age think differently about the split
between what is considered work and what is considered non-work and the
technology that is developing faster than I can keep up with facilitates
this. These youngsters (who'd have thought I'd be over the hill at 39?)
don't view the world as neatly split into working hours and non-working
hours and the technology that they have access to allows them to act on
their world view in a way that's never been possible before.  It doesn't
really matter that you or I might think this is a dangerous path because
it is already happening.  People ARE blogging about their organisations
and they ARE using internet email services rather than have "work" and
"non-work" emails and they ARE using social networking sites to store
photos and documents and to communicate with their peers and some of
this is work-related and some of it isn't but it's done in "work time".


I don't believe we could stop this but I also don't think we should but
we don need to get our collective heads around the issue.  I see this as
an opportunity for RM professionals to get in front of the game for once
instead of trying to play catch-up as we so often seem to do.  We should
be thinking about how we are going to deal with these issues rather than
waiting 15 years and then complaining about the enormity of the legacy
problem we have to deal with as so many of us are doing with email right
now.  I doubt the solution will be a simple one and it will probably
involve a combination of training, technology and changes to the legal
codes in our respective jurisdictions but my point is that we need to
start planning now for things that we can predict rather than hoping
that we can forestall the inevitable.

Cheers, Bernadette
 
Bernadette Bean
Records Management Strategist
Finance and Administration Division
Department of Health (South Australian Government)
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