Bulk email can have several purposes other than spam. Communicating policy changes and announcing new features, for example.
Now to answer OP's question: I have to admit my company doesn't allow the use of any non-approved software, so I make do with MergeMail in Word. Yeah, rudimentar, but does the job.
Yes, it's more convenient to use a laptop, but I guess sometimes GenZ are so used to using our phones that even those tasks don't bother. Personally, I prefer writing on actual keyboards, and researching on a laptop browser (tabs!), but everything else is perfectly fine on phones.
I'm a GenZ working with data. Most of my friends also work with "computer stuff" (data, digital design, online marketing etc).
Most of us have laptops for work only. We usually have conversations about ditching our laptops because we often associate it with the stress of our jobs. Being on a computer for me is almost the same as working, so if I can get away from my laptop I will do it.
Phones on the other hand are more associated with, well, everything else. Social contact, convenience, leisure (music, books) etc.
After I finished my master's the first thing I did was ditch my laptop and only used a smartphone for more than a year. Then I got a job with online marketing and had to get a laptop again because typing and having multiple tabs open were more convenient.
Take all of this as anecdote, however -- this is just me and my social circle. Where I live I know many GenZ who don't even have PCs (some don't even know how to use them proficiently). I however know a few GenZ who are almost PC addicts (gaming, hacking etc).
> looking [...] for selected opinions making it easier for you to justify your decision to yourself.
Exactly this! I noticed I have a habit of doing this for everything I "choose" in my life. If I choose to buy X, I go online looking for opinions to validate my decision; if I choose to take Y sport, I do the same; if I feel inclined to belive in Z theory or follow W philosophy, I do the same.
I know what I want and believe, but I still find it hard to just trust myself and dive into it, rather I have to always justify it to myself by means of external opinions.
This may not be the best place to ask, but do you have any idea on how to deal with this "lack of confidence in my own choices"?
Stephen Fry is considered one of the best audiobook readers of all time. This AI voice is still better than 100% of AI audiobooks in the market, and likely better than a good portion of HUMAN readers as well.
Clearly the point of the video is its AUDIO content, not the visuals. The lack of a "4k version" does not make any difference other than saving you bandwith :-)
This is a sensible take that could be applied to almost anything else in life with some exceptions. Do whatever works best for you, but don't generalize much outside of your practical experience.
I work as online support for the US' largest private company, being one of the main direct point of contact their business partners have with the company -- and I can 100% attest for this.
On a daily basis, my team (which consists of 2 people only, on a good day) deals with hundreds of partners facing dozens of different issues. We are only trained to deal with maybe 3% of the issues we receive -- the rest, we must redirect to other dozens of internal departments, or escalate to other teams.
The problem is: I (and my colleague) have zero idea who is the correct team to re-direct to/escalate most of the time. This is not because we don't want to know, but because most of the time even our leaders and their leaders have no idea who is the right person to deal with those problems.
The company is so big (and not properly organized) that some issues their business partners' face go almost 2 months without a solution, with endless email threads of one team pinging the other...
It is bad for the costumer/supplier, and also for the employees, who have been alienated of their job and are left to "none's devices" to do their job.