Engaging the Millennials

If you're a Baby Boomer and retirement is on the horizon, join the crowd. For the next two decades roughly 10,000 Baby Boomers will turn 65 every day and many of them will  choose to retire. The ethic that generation learned was to go to school and get good grades, then work 40 hours a week for 40 years, retire, and then pursue whatever makes you happy, usually traveling the world.

The generation replacing them are the Millennials, who have very different ideas about work and life. Tailoring the work environment to their priorities and maximizing their talent is a very different proposition; their outlook on work-life integration is vastly different from their parents and grand-parents, as this article from Forbes points out.

In future posts we will look at the coming wave of new employees, born from the early 1980's through the turn of the century, what they look for in an employer and how best to attract and retain the best talent available from this new generation.
Engaging the Millennials