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Beyond X & Y
Knowing how different generations in today’s workplace learn, work and communicate is essential to managing them effectively. Get a head-start with insights on these demographics.
USA Today reports that “The centenarian population has grown 66 percent over the past three decades, according to the 2010 Census data. There are 53,364 people in the USA who are 100 or older, compared with 32,194 in 1980.”
What does this trend mean for the workplace? As more and more [...]
While our book, The 2020 Workplace, predicts Gen Y will make up 50 percent or more of the workplace by the year 2020, what we did not predict was where Gen Ys would want to work: small companies.
According to a survey of 285,000 Gen Ys, or millennials, 47 percent work at companies with [...]
We often hear senior learning executives say: “If millennials continue to be a large percentage of our workforce, how must our learning department change?” What they are really asking is how can their learning department incorporate the same features that make engaging in social sites so much fun, like commenting, rating, tagging, using rich media, [...]
Workplace culture evolves with each generation. Today’s hires have demands and needs quite different from what their hiring managers are used to. Members of Generation 2020, born after 1997 are using social media in kindergarten and bringing new demands to the workplace.
This class of future workers who are now mastering the alphabet will bring [...]
We continuously hear the big stats about Facebook use, such as:
There are now 800 million users on Facebook. 72 percent of all U.S. Internet users are on Facebook. 740 billion minutes a month are spent on Facebook. The percentage of Facebook users 35 and older is growing rapidly, making up more than [...]
It’s a fact that by 2020, there will be five generations working side by side, with millennials representing 50 percent of the workforce.
Working on a multi-generational team is already commonplace in many organizations, and an increasingly number of managers should prepare for this — and, yes, even embrace it.
Here are five [...]
You might say Gen Y learned a lesson the hard way from their parents – they are saving for retirement early in their careers in spite of huge student debt.
A recent survey from TD Ameritrade reported that the financial recession has had a positive impact on the saving patterns of Gen Y.
The TD [...]
If you are a member of Gen X, born between 1965 and 1976, you are often referred to as independent, self-reliant, mistrustful of institutions, and at times focused on your personal “back-up plan” – just in case things do not work out for you. But the one value most remembered for Gen Xers is the [...]
Get ready: A 13-year-old may be your next intern. In an effort to be better organized during the school year, 13-year-old Ozair Patel built an app, called Berry Schoolmate, named after Berry Middle School in Hoover, Ala., where he attends.
The app includes the school calendar so students can find out what days they [...]
The results from the 2011 Cisco Connected World Technology Report are in – and they may surprise you.
Cisco interviewed 2,853 respondents including 1,441 college students (18 to 24 years old) and 1,412 new college graduates (21 to 29 years old) across 14 countries.
These five top-line findings are worth a discussion with [...]
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