Individuals born after 1980 now make up the majority of today’s workforce. As a result, businesses need to consider how this new majority of employees thinks and feels about work. They are our future CEOs who will be shaping the workplaces yet to come.
Check out this infographic from PGi and our friends at Column Five Media about generational differences in the workplace. I know, you’ve seen lots of data about generational differences. I thought PGi did a great job of touching on subjects we don’t always hear that much about. For example, 70% of non-Millennials are open to mentoring by a younger colleague. And 81% of Millennials think they should set their own work schedule. Okay, that last one may not be much of a surprise!
Society is changing the way we do business. It only seems logical it will also change the way we work.
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Catie Farrow says
I LOVE this! What a great infographic. The idea of creating a symbiotic workplace is something we should be talking about more often, rather than whose views are better! Thanks, as always, Sharlyn! 🙂
Kama Timbrell says
I’m a Gen Xer who enjoys working from home and is actually more productive when working from home. If the Millennials can make businesses more flexible, I’m all for it!
Cathy Shanes says
There seems to be a tendency that every next generation outshines the previous, but Millennials has exceeded all expectations. I don’t think it’s a coincidence, but rather a credit of this generation that technology has developed to mind-boggling extent!
Harold Ingmire says
The infographics are great – as in every generation they ignore or forget they have the opportunity to leap frog off the previous generations successes and learn from their failures. This is a great forum, but for future managers of your own specific generation and the generation that follows them you should watch the spread within each generation of the skills and abilities and their ability to assimilate technology which accelerates our ability to analyze and make decisions. People are not necessarily any smarter, we have much better tools to work with. When you move from the executive level (or those ladder climbers), you still have a huge part of the same generation population that is being left behind – all managers of each generation must learn how to manage this large and important mass that does the “work”, and not get wrapped up in our own “superiority”. I can’t wait for the Millennials’ children to see their evolution – the 2020’s.