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Confessions of a millennial Working with millennials was a hot topic at the recent Hot Firm and A/E Industry Awards Conference.
M ost researchers define the millennial generation as those born anywhere between 1982 and 2004 (although some sources end this in 1997). Indisputably, millennials are rapidly becoming an important part of the A/E industry. The 2016 Best Firms To Work For employee survey, which polled more than 11,000 employees, found that almost 66 percent of the workforce falls into this age category. Although the Best Firms To Work For survey didn’t find that on the whole millennials were less happy in their jobs, it did find them less likely to recommend their job to a friend, and less likely to see themselves working there in the future.
Christina Zweig
The Deliotte survey found that high employment satisfaction ratings among millennials are related to feeling that an employee’s values are aligned with his or her organization’s (30 percent versus “Millennials see technology as a friend, not a foe. If something isn’t working right, we want to learn how to make it work better.”
Deloitte’s 2016 Millennial Survey , based on interviews with nearly 7,700 employed and degreed millennials in all professional industries, had similar findings. The survey found that 64 percent of millennials in the U.S. plan on leaving their current place of employment by 2020. The Deloitte survey also reported 44 percent of millennials would like to leave their current employers in the next two years if given the choice. Among the reasons for the discontent are a perceived lack of leadership-skill development, feelings of being overlooked, work/life balance, the desire for flexibility, and a conflict of values.
See CHRISTINA ZWEIG, page 8
THE ZWEIG LETTER November 28, 2016, ISSUE 1177
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