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About Me

Matt Elliott is a writer and communications specialist currently based in Toronto, Ontario. Since graduating from the University of King's College in 2006 with a Bachelor of Arts in the dubious field of History, Matt has been working at a small not-for-profit organization on a variety of projects, including the architectural design and management of several educational web platforms. His current responsibilities tend more toward program development and management. But he also fixes office computers when he needs to.

Matt's experiences as a young, full-time employee led to an interest in generational differences in the workplace and the changing landscape of what a 'career' really looks like to young people entering the workplace. As an employee in his early 20s (born 1983), Matt began to identify strongly with "Generation Y" and soon started reading everything he could find about shifting attitudes and a new culture of work: a culture where task, not time, was given priority, and overblown bureaucracy gives way to simply getting things done. The result was his blog, yworking.com, where he writes regularly about these issues and others.

When he's not getting all fired up about generations and work, Matt enjoys nerdy things like computers (Apple mostly), video games, short fiction and going to see bad movies.

Matt Elliott's blog is yworking.com.