Work Place Transformation for Gen Y Employees
They are tech-savvy but spoiled, colloborative but impatient, socially interconnected but self-invloved. They are the Gen Y also known as millenials.
“Gen Y respects those who validate them for who they are now, and who they want to be.”- Peter Sheahan, Gen Y expert.
As statistics show that 40% of the workforce by 2020 would be Gen Y with the baby boomers retiring, transforming the workplace according to them to get the best out of them is indeed the need of the hour.
The main problem with the Gen Y employees is that they want everything ready made that is readily available. Organisations that have failed to identify this change and the needs of the millenials often end up with dissatisfied employees resulting in poor performance, lack of motivation and finally employee separation.
Long term Employment as per Gen Y is not in terms of decades but years. Hard truth the organisations have realised is that the average tenure the employees are willing to work is 6 years.
Gen Y attitudes towards workplaces
Transformation according to Gen Y caters to autonomy, change and choice
They rate employee engagement higher over quality of meeting rooms. Gone are the days when structured and face-to-face meetings took place. Gen Y on the other hand, likes quick, casual and socially-tinged meetings. Their use of technology in interaction further undermines the importance of lengthy meetings and formal spaces.
Workplace reflecting a blend of personal and professional lives as well. Millenials prefer the work place to not be super sophisticated. This is the idea of work being an activity not a place.
Millenials hate stagnancy at the work place. They would not want to stick to their permanent desks instead want the workplace to be as dynamic as they are. They are motivated by the freedom to move around and shifting places. This is just one of the variables giving them a push to work in a new world of work.
Each of the rooms are tailored specific to the company’s function
“Gen Y respects those who validate them for who they are now, and who they want to be.”- Peter Sheahan, Gen Y expert.
As statistics show that 40% of the workforce by 2020 would be Gen Y with the baby boomers retiring, transforming the workplace according to them to get the best out of them is indeed the need of the hour.
The main problem with the Gen Y employees is that they want everything ready made that is readily available. Organisations that have failed to identify this change and the needs of the millenials often end up with dissatisfied employees resulting in poor performance, lack of motivation and finally employee separation.
Long term Employment as per Gen Y is not in terms of decades but years. Hard truth the organisations have realised is that the average tenure the employees are willing to work is 6 years.
Gen Y attitudes towards workplaces
Transformation according to Gen Y caters to autonomy, change and choice
They rate employee engagement higher over quality of meeting rooms. Gone are the days when structured and face-to-face meetings took place. Gen Y on the other hand, likes quick, casual and socially-tinged meetings. Their use of technology in interaction further undermines the importance of lengthy meetings and formal spaces.
Workplace reflecting a blend of personal and professional lives as well. Millenials prefer the work place to not be super sophisticated. This is the idea of work being an activity not a place.
Millenials hate stagnancy at the work place. They would not want to stick to their permanent desks instead want the workplace to be as dynamic as they are. They are motivated by the freedom to move around and shifting places. This is just one of the variables giving them a push to work in a new world of work.
Each of the rooms are tailored specific to the company’s function