Generation Real-Time
Originally posted on huffingtonpost.com.
A few years ago I was publicly fretting over the arrival of millennials—young people in the generation after X—in the workplace. I described how these new adults would bring with them a sense of entitlement, a need for constant praise, a habit of multitasking to the point of distraction and even their helicopter parents (HR departments were reporting that parents would call on their children’s behalf).
The millennials would change the way business is done, and not necessarily for the better. “These young people will tell you what time their yoga class is, and the day’s work will be organized around the fact that they have this commitment,” I told “60 Minutes” in 2007. “So you actually envy them. How wonderful it is to be young and have your priorities so clear. Flip side of it is how awful it is to be managing the extension, sort of, of the teenage babysitting pool.”
Two years and a global economic crisis later, I’d like to take a lot of that back.
February 5, 2010 | by Marian Salzman | Share This | tagged Brazil, China, Euro RSCG Worldwide, Facebook, Google, London, Obama, One Young World, baby boomers, change, millennials, social networks | Post a Comment 
