What happens when millennials run the workplace
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Re: What happens when millennials run the workplace
#2Tangential, but what exactly makes someone a millenial these days? I was almost expecting a newspaper run by 16 year olds with that title, but that's obviously not the case. Is anyone under thirty a millennial now?
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#3What I'm really interested in seeing is a workplace entirely run by Capricorns.
I've never seen evidence that Millennials exist as a group at all. Is it a negative horoscope published once a decade?
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#4From a quote in the article "We tend to publicize these outrageous acts of defiance, versus emphasizing the majority that I run into and work with, who are very mission focused and value based". Which has been my experience, very few do things that would be close to what is in the article. On the other hand I've met my share of "WTF?" from people 18-70, not sure that millennials have the lock on bad behavior in the workplace.
Re: What happens when millennials run the workplace
#5Tangential, but what exactly makes someone a millenial these days? I was almost expecting a newspaper run by 16 year olds with that title, but that's obviously not the case. Is anyone under thirty a millennial now?
According to Wikipedia[1], Millennials are those born between 1980 and 2000. That would make a 16 year old barely a Millennial.
Re: What happens when millennials run the workplace
#6Tangential, but what exactly makes someone a millenial these days? I was almost expecting a newspaper run by 16 year olds with that title, but that's obviously not the case. Is anyone under thirty a millennial now?
According to Wikipedia[1], Millennials are those born between 1980 and 2000. That would make a 16 year old barely a Millennial. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials
It would make me a millenial as well and I'm 35.
Seems like a strange unit when you have a range from 16 to 35, I don't have a lot in common with the average 18 year old any more.
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#7Not sure if it's just the article's bias, but these people sound intolerable, regardless of their age.
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#8The "Say what you want" experiment is going to die a fiery death. It will, ultimately, make an office culture toxic. Unfiltered talk only works when everyone has thick skin, which is dubious to believe many millennials do. Compound that with the blending of work and personal life, and it's a recipe for disaster.
When everyone says what they want, you will eventually be proven wrong. Being wrong isn't bad, but being proven wrong with a blunt object like social media, hurts. It usually draws recourse.
Re: What happens when millennials run the workplace
#9What I'm really interested in seeing is a workplace entirely run by Capricorns. I've never seen evidence that Millennials exist as a group at all. Is it a negative horoscope published once a decade?
As people get older, their brand loyalties are more set.
Younger, working folk often don't have the house/family/healthcare/retirement worries of older workers. Marketers
often target young folks because they'll spend on new things.
The Millennials are the largest adult demographic: http://www.indexmundi.com/united_states/age_structure.html . Their children will be bigger than them (hopefully!).
People of all ages don't always fit into the "generational" niche the media and marketers try to put them in to.
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#10I'm not seeing anything surprising here. At many small companies, the employees will feel comfortable being frank with their CEO, especially if that CEO is around their age. It's definitely not surprising that a startup with an open office environment and a CEO who addresses the hundred 20-something-year-old employees directly in Q&A meetings would generate a culture where someone would directly tell the CEO that they believed he had been rude. (It's also poor journalism to present that entire anecdote solely from the CEO's POV--leaving the impression that the CEO was entirely in the right with how he answered the original question.)
My biggest takeaway is that Mic needs to rethink their policies and culture around paid time off, since that seems to be the main source of conflict described in this article.
And please, can we stop with the Millennials-are-terrible meme? 40-somethings always think 20-somethings are lazy, rude, and will never amount to anything. Dig into the NYT archives from the 1800s and you'll find articles with similar complaints about The Kids These Days. I'd like to see an article about that.