Canon Preps for Generation Z Workforce

Forget millennials. Canon Inc. is already starting to think about how Generation Z is going to change workplaces.

Canon, which had $514 million in sales last year, recently completed a “futurecasting” exercise to determine what the workforce will look like in the next 10 years, Greg Ryan, vice president for corporate planning, told Bloomberg Law. The results offer some insight into the near future of work and have the imaging company shifting its focus to data and information sharing.

The research focused on Generation Z workers—those born in the mid-1990s to early 2000s. Canon found the next generation of employees ...