Managing Millennials: Why Gen Y Will Be Running the Country by 2020 [INFOGRAPHIC] In just eight short years, 46% of the U.S. workforce will be comprised of millennials. Whether you're frightened or excited by the prospect, the fact remains that young adults born between 1976 and 2001 will be running this country. UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School and the YEC have teamed up to compile research and create this infographic, which details the who, how and why of managing millennials. SEE ALSO: How Gen Y Women Fare in Today’s Workplace [INFOGRAPHIC] Aside from their preference for engaging work environments, millennials value jobs that encourage social media activity.
One-in-three indicated he would prioritize social media freedom, device flexibility and work mobility over salary when considering a job offer. After all, millennials switch between devices and forms of media (i.e., laptops, smartphones, tablets and TV) an average of 27 times per hour. Today's companies would do well to harness that hyper-connected, multi-tasking energy. Occupying the Millinial Way. Occupy movement mirrors Millennial Generation. In our newest book, “Millennial Momentum: How a New Generation is Remaking America,” we describe why the leadership of all the nation’s institutions will be challenged during this decade by the emerging Millennial Generation, born 1982-2003.
These young people believe in individuals taking action as a group at the local level to bring about a more “accessible, equitable, community-driven” world. That closely describes the “Occupy” protests. Skip to next paragraph Subscribe Today to the Monitor Click Here for your FREE 30 DAYS ofThe Christian Science MonitorWeekly Digital Edition Shortly after our book was published, these protests sprung up seemingly spontaneously in more than 1,400 cities across the country, leading one commentator to suggest we should be given “the Nobel Prize for Predictions.” We’ll leave that for others to chew on, especially because we are not yet certain that these protests are Millennial enough.
Column: Millennials, don't just 'occupy' We talk a lot about the polls showing that more than half of Americans are afraid that their children will not have better lives than they do. What we don't talk about as much is what it's like to be those children. My grandpa used to tell me about his parents, who left their Slovenian village around 1905 to come to Chicago. My great-grandfather came first, promising my great-grandmother he would send the money for her to follow. He did. Is it still the American story? "We are the 99 percent", a website that's an offshoot of the "Occupy Wall Street" movement, collects anonymous letters depicting economic woe.
"I worked hard, played by the rules, got good grades, never got into trouble … and I'm SCARED for my future," writes one 24-year-old woman with $100,000 in student loans. Of course, no generation is free from hard luck stories, and without context (what were their college majors, for instance?) There are five stages of grief, so goes our cultural understanding. Do Millennials matter in Washington? - PostPartisan. Posted at 01:29 PM ET, 06/19/2012 Jun 19, 2012 05:29 PM EDT TheWashingtonPost In an e-mail Monday afternoon, House Speaker John Boehner’s office explained that, according to the Heritage Foundation, “Millennials will be hit with an average hike of $1,099” if the Bush tax cuts expire.
Wait . . .Millennials? The use of that word didn’t make the speaker’s anti-tax jeremiad any more convincing. But it did make my afternoon. Watching Washington means you have to hear a lot about how this or that will hurt seniors, or the middle class or middle-class seniors. As a Millennial, I figured that mattering to the speaker of the House was just something to look forward to, a silver lining to silver hair. Whether a cause or a symptom of this sort of thinking, official Washington’s lexicon is decidedly unfriendly to twenty-somethings.