10 Ways Gen Y Will Change the Workplace
Generation Y a/k/a Millennials promise to:
- Hold only productive meetings. Hallelujah!
- Shorten the workday by focusing on productivity.
- Bring back administrative assistants -- even if Gen Y pays for them out-of-pocket and even if they're virtual.
- Redefine retirement by taking multiple mini-retirements.
- They'll find real mentors by teaching older workers about technology and in return be guided through office politics.
- Put human back into human resources.
- Promote people to management based on their managerial skills, not their seniority.
- Continue to value what their parents have to offer because Gen Y respects their parents and their parents respect their Gen Y children.
- Trade off potential raises and promotions for higher starting salaries.
- Re-invent the performance reviews by increasing their frequency from semi-annual or even annual to on-the-spot.
Source: Employee Evolution
Steven, I have been placing college grads for most of my adult life and I could not agree more about what the 'new' will bring and how they will bring it. In my training I call these folks the Millennials, basically because that is what the person who trained me called them. Anyway I have 2 young men, I call my sons, 1 works for me and I see your top 10 in him everyday. Even though I sometimes roll my eyes at his comments about me "taking the long way" and how I should "do more in less time"; I know he is right. Interestingly enough even your comments about starting salary are real for him, he has not even graduated high school yet and he has already declared he will live in the silicon valley, earn a minimum of $58k as a base salary in his first sales job and will be a CEO by the time he is 27. When he speaks I actually think he will get what he wants. He has 10 times for direction than I ever did. Thanks for what you do!