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- the generation of people born between 1963 and 1981 who entered the workplace from the 1980s onward, bringing new attitudes to working life that run contrary to traditional corporate expectations....
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- Gen X is Unhappy at Work
- Workers in their 30s and early 40s, otherwise known as Generation X, are growing unhappy with corporate life and planning a retreat, says Tammy Erickson, an expert on generational work force issues. That's bad news for their employers, who are looking to this cohort as next generation leaders. ...
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Does Gen X Have a Future in Business?
- Generation X is starting to wonder about its future in business management. What?, you say. Isn't this the cohort poised to pull the levers of power out of the wrinkled, spotted hands of the Boomer Generation as its shuffles en masse into retirement? ...
- Blog posts 2007-12-13
- Generation X Is Now In Charge
- Generational experts will quibble whether Barack Obama is a boomer or Generation X, but we all know in our hearts he is an X man at the core. So next week the first Gen X president will be sworn into office. It's a pattern of promotion being...
- Blog posts 2009-01-15
- Why Gen X Will Save the Planet
- Not to put too much pressure on you dear readers born in then 1970s and 1980s, but you've got a big stinking pile to clean up and not much time to waste. Endangered planet. Economies in chaos. Terrorism. Massive debt. Massive poverty, just to name a few calamities awaiting your...
- Blog posts 2009-07-31
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- The Next Generation: How They Differ from Boomers, X and Y
- We naturally tend to categorize generations into stereotypes. Boomers, as you know, are terrible stewards of the planet, profligate consumers, and self-absored. Gen Xers (1963-1981) seek work-life balance, are more conservative spenders than their parents, and pride themselves on self-sufficiency. Gen Y (1980-1984) was born with a mouse in its...
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Boomers, Gen-X and Gen-Y: a Failure to Talk
- The Find: Between the feature package on managing Gen Y and the vehement reaction to Sean Silverthorne’s post about Gen X being unhappy at work, generational conflict has been getting a lot of attention on BNET lately, but a new study suggests all this inter-generational angst...
- Blog posts 2008-06-06
- Boomers: The Worst Generation?
- My posts about generational change in the workforce tend to draw a lot of readership. Nothing to do with my brilliant writing skills, mind you; people just seem naturally drawn to the topic. So I'm reading comments on a recent post, Generation X Is Now In Charge,...
- Blog posts 2009-01-23
- Are You at War With Generation Y?
- Last week, Sean Silverthorne's post "Gen X Is Unhappy at Work" got more hits than any blog post in BNET history. Clearly, the subject hit a nerve. Based on reader comments, one of the things that chaps Xers' hides the most is their younger coworkers: the millennials, or Generation Y....
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- Latinas Bring New Skills to Work
- As Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor moves through the confirmation process in the U.S. Senate, we are likewise witnessing a new cohort advancing to the levers of power and influence in this country: the wise Latina. Just as Generation X or Generation Y possess certain characteristics that...
- Blog posts 2009-07-15
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