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For baby boomers, it's the juggling act between job and family
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For Gen X, it means moving in and out of the workforce to accommodate kids and outside interests.
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Gen Y. Friendship is such a strong motivator for them that Gen Y workers will choose a job just to be with their friends.
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Generation Y's search for meaning makes support for volunteering among the benefits it values most.
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With 85 million baby boomers and 50 million Gen Xers, there is already a yawning generation gap among American workers--particularly in their ideas of work-life balance. For baby boomers, it's the juggling act between job and family. For Gen X, it means moving in an
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sara kozlowskiYoung workers happily blend work and play, as long as every minute has meaning
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Now along come the 76 million members of Generation Y
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For these new 20-something workers, the line between work and home doesn't really exist. They just want to spend their time in meaningful and useful ways, no matter where they are.
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The first challenge for the companies that want to hire the best young workers is getting them in the door. They are in high demand
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and they have high expectations for personal growth, even in entry-level jobs.
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And entrepreneurship now functions as a safety net for this generation. They grew up on the Internet, and they know how to launch a viable online business.
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With all these options, Generation Y is forcing companies to think more creatively about work-life balance.
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"People would rather stay at one company and grow, but they don't think they can do that," he says. "Two-thirds of the people who left Deloitte left to do something they could have done with us, but we made it difficult for them to transition."
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Old assumptions about what employees value in the workplace don't always apply with Gen Y. Friendship is such a strong motivator for them that Gen Y workers will choose a job just to be with their friends.
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Sun Microsystem's telecommuting program, for example, has kicked into high gear in response to Generation Y's demands. Today more than half of Sun's employees work remotely.
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Ethan JewettWith 85 million baby boomers and 50 million Gen Xers, there is already a yawning generation gap among American workers--particularly in their ideas of work-life balance. For baby boomers, it's the...
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With 85 million baby boomers and 50 million Gen Xers, there is already a yawning generation gap among American workers--particularly in their ideas of work-life balance. For baby boomers, it's the juggling act between job and family. For Gen X, it means moving in and out of the workforce to accommodate kids and outside interests. Now along come the 76 million members of Generation Y. For these new 20-something workers, the line between work and home doesn't really exist. They just want to spend their time in meaningful and useful ways, no matter where they are.
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