Millennial here and while I’m generalising, I don’t think our generation is following in boomer footsteps in setting workplace culture. Although the biggest change to workplace culture in my lifetime has been thanks to a global pandemic, with the boomers now trying to pedal us backwards.
Biggest thing I’ve noticed with my millennial colleagues is that they see the job as a job and have very little loyalty to a ‘company’. If the wages and conditions are right, they’ll stay and work. If they’re shit, workers will leave and find something better.
The boomer (and GenX to an extent) mentality is still very much ‘find a job and stick it out’.
Until I started my current role (almost 7 years) my longest tenure before that was 3 years, over a 15 year career.
I would get asked in interviews about ‘job hopping’ and would simply say that I can handle a bad situation for so long. Mind you some of those were being made redundant, but older people couldn’t believe I would leave a job.
Millennial here and while I’m generalising, I don’t think our generation is following in boomer footsteps in setting workplace culture. Although the biggest change to workplace culture in my lifetime has been thanks to a global pandemic, with the boomers now trying to pedal us backwards.
Biggest thing I’ve noticed with my millennial colleagues is that they see the job as a job and have very little loyalty to a ‘company’. If the wages and conditions are right, they’ll stay and work. If they’re shit, workers will leave and find something better.
The boomer (and GenX to an extent) mentality is still very much ‘find a job and stick it out’.
Until I started my current role (almost 7 years) my longest tenure before that was 3 years, over a 15 year career.
I would get asked in interviews about ‘job hopping’ and would simply say that I can handle a bad situation for so long. Mind you some of those were being made redundant, but older people couldn’t believe I would leave a job.
And honestly, why be “loyal” to a company when they will neck you the minute it serves their interest. They reap what they sow.
It’s a very old school way of thinking. Back when loyalty actually mattered, sure.
I’ve said in an interview ‘I’m loyal to my family and keeping a roof over their heads, work is work’. Ended up getting the job, but declining it.