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Introduction
Are millennials a lazy, entitled group as the media sometimes suggests? Or do they represent a
new era of talent, an army of creative, tech-savvy optimists who are redefining the workplace as
we know it?
For the first time in history, we see five generations of
employees working together under the same roof. But
traditionalists are leaving, and Baby Boomers are looking
towards their retirement ventures, taking years of
experience with them. Generation X are replacing them,
slowly moving up in the hierarchy, but the bulk of the people
on the ground, the do-ers, are millennials.
In the technology sector, where talent and expertise thrive,
harnessing the right people in the right way is crucial. So in
order to successfully leverage this cohort of creative, tech-
savvy optimists, and develop them as future leaders,
employers need to understand their wants and needs. They
need to understand what makes them, as employees, jump
ship, what makes them stay, and how this cohort might just
influence those that follow.
These questions plagued us here at KPMG so, pen and
clipboard to hand, we conducted our own survey. We grilled
over 70 millennials, varied in age and gender, questions
around their employment related challenges, priorities and
expectations. We’ll intermittently disperse this paper with
some of our findings as we go along.
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