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What Most Companies Don’t Get About Millennials In The Workplace
Creating the work life of tomorrow, can’t be done in yesterday’s ways. Oh, and we’re not as lazy and entitled as you think.
“How the heck can we make millennials stay at our company? They just stay for a few years and then they leave.” This question was recently asked, only half rhetorically, by an acquaintance of mine who is also a manager. Later, when talking to my colleague about this, we soon concluded the problem with this question: it’s simply the wrong question.
Instead, the question should be along the lines of “how do we create a work life that is aligned with the needs of tomorrow, without getting stuck in the ways of yesterday?”
To create a sustainable future, we will have to question a lot of things and let go of “business as usual” in a number of areas. Here are three things about us, the millennial work force, you will need to understand in this endeavor.
We know the gold watch is out of the question
In Sweden, where I live, there is a long-standing tradition that employees that have been with the same company for, say 25 years or more, receive a gold watch for long and faithful service. My father, who worked…
