As workplaces become increasingly age-diverse, psychologists are working to help people of all ages work together. Conventional wisdom says if you’re a Millennial, born after 1980, you leave work at 5:01, won’t work weekends and prefer texting to face-to-face meetings. In fact, you probably just sent a text to five friends about how lame your 30-something supervisor is. If you’re a Baby Boomer, born between 1946 and 1964, you live to work, can’t text and can’t tolerate change. But like most stereotypes, those blanket assumptions are often wrong, say psychologists who study age diversity in the workplace. In fact, such […]
They Are Not Actually A “Me” Generation
By Fatmanur Erdogan, Hurriyet Daily News (click here for They are not really a me generation) Older managers wonder why the youngest employees in their offices, the Millenials, seem so hungry for recognition. They wonder why these new people don’t just learn a little patience, and wait until they are older to start taking credit for stuff. It brings up a good point: Who deserves credit for the things that happen at work? In their book “Egonomics,” David Marcum and Steven Smith ask, “Who invented the assembly line?” People say Henry Ford. Who invented the telephone? Alexander Graham Bell. Who made […]