Millennials and the changing employer-employee relationship
Do you also subscribe to the notion that people under the age of 34 are immature, coddled, and self-obsessed? No, I don’t buy it. It is very okay to have a team of smart, socially-conscious, hard-working, and collaborative young people. Just don’t hire other types of people, regardless of age. Even though data show that Millennials are more likely to switch jobs than their Generation X colleagues, and that they’ll weigh flexible work schedules and work-life balance as heavily as they do salary, it still doesn’t strike as entitlement, though. Unprofessional deeds and immaturity strike more as the reasonable response to the world we live in. After Youth Service in 1991, I read job ads in newspapers, and circled interesting ones using a physical pen that actual ink came out of. I made phone calls on a phone that was connected to a wall. I had to stand next to the phone during these phone calls, due to cord length limitations. Sometimes people returned my calls and...