Comments on: Has The Recession Cancelled Gen Y Workplace Concerns? http://workexposedblog.com/2008/12/04/has-the-recession-cancelled-gen-y-workplace-concerns/ Exploring the World of Work Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:27:44 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Generation Y’s Second-Job is the Key to Surviving the Recession | Twenty Set http://workexposedblog.com/2008/12/04/has-the-recession-cancelled-gen-y-workplace-concerns/#comment-341 Generation Y’s Second-Job is the Key to Surviving the Recession | Twenty Set Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:04:50 +0000 http://workexposed.wordpress.com/?p=939#comment-341 [...] about the recession is that Generation Y should lay low and just be thankful we have jobs. Why do older generations think we should be putting our career goals on hold just because the economy sucks? Now is just as [...] [...] about the recession is that Generation Y should lay low and just be thankful we have jobs. Why do older generations think we should be putting our career goals on hold just because the economy sucks? Now is just as [...]

]]> By: Nick Reddin http://workexposedblog.com/2008/12/04/has-the-recession-cancelled-gen-y-workplace-concerns/#comment-312 Nick Reddin Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:53:23 +0000 http://workexposed.wordpress.com/?p=939#comment-312 The Best Buy model is a great model of workers being highly effective while also being highly mobile. I believe we will see more and more companies consider this model or a hybrid of this model as we go forward. The Best Buy model is a great model of workers being highly effective while also being highly mobile. I believe we will see more and more companies consider this model or a hybrid of this model as we go forward.

]]> By: Brett Hummel http://workexposedblog.com/2008/12/04/has-the-recession-cancelled-gen-y-workplace-concerns/#comment-287 Brett Hummel Sun, 07 Dec 2008 06:50:42 +0000 http://workexposed.wordpress.com/?p=939#comment-287 Highlighting the need to 'buckle down and put in the long hours' points to how we still have not learned from our mistakes. Americans already work the most hours of any developed nation, and that did not stop us from getting into this mess. Instead, corporations should look to these difficult times as a chance to change and innovate. This crushing recession will break many of the companies that refuse to change and embrace a new mindset. Millennials and their like minded co-workers do just offer a real solution to a corporation's problems: decentralization. While it requires a more efficient and responsible manager, decentralization, flextime, and work from home offer real alternatives to reducing the fixed costs of an office. The mentality that just by sitting at your desk for an extra two hours a day will somehow make this recession go away is ridiculous. I would direct you to take a look at Best Buy, a company who is reinventing itself for the 21st century. They realized that their workplace was not appealing to the next generation, and put in place a system without schedules, made meetings optional, and judged a person only on their performance. They have seen both a reduction in voluntary turnover and an increase in productivity precisely because they listened to Gen Y. Highlighting the need to ‘buckle down and put in the long hours’ points to how we still have not learned from our mistakes. Americans already work the most hours of any developed nation, and that did not stop us from getting into this mess.

Instead, corporations should look to these difficult times as a chance to change and innovate. This crushing recession will break many of the companies that refuse to change and embrace a new mindset. Millennials and their like minded co-workers do just offer a real solution to a corporation’s problems: decentralization. While it requires a more efficient and responsible manager, decentralization, flextime, and work from home offer real alternatives to reducing the fixed costs of an office. The mentality that just by sitting at your desk for an extra two hours a day will somehow make this recession go away is ridiculous.

I would direct you to take a look at Best Buy, a company who is reinventing itself for the 21st century. They realized that their workplace was not appealing to the next generation, and put in place a system without schedules, made meetings optional, and judged a person only on their performance. They have seen both a reduction in voluntary turnover and an increase in productivity precisely because they listened to Gen Y.

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