Recognizing and Engaging Employees For Dummies

Chapter 16

Recognizing and Engaging Millennials

In This Chapter

Discovering the profile of Millennials

Reframing your expectations to manage Millennials

Realizing how Millennials are changing the game

Motivating Millennials

Millennials — born roughly between 1980 and 2000 — are currently the largest generation in the workplace and are expected to make up 75 percent of all workers by 2025. An estimated 44 million are already working, and 46 million more will become a part of the workforce in the years ahead. As 10,000 baby boomers a day retire, Millennials will come to dominate the workforce in both number and attitude, and in the process, reshape the work experience for all employees. As a manager of Millennials, you want to know what’s important to this generation and how employers can best tap into the potential of this generation of workers.

Understanding this generation is critical if you want to attract Millennials to work for your organization and keep them there. The average tenure of a Millennial (how long they stay with an employer) is currently just 1.8 years. According ...