Making Their Voice Heard
Gen Yers love to give feedback as much as they love to receive it. They will want to give feedback in real time. And, they are brutally honest, which neither the Boomers or Gen Xers are likely to appreciate. Gen Y is going to question all of our established processes all of the time. For example, workplace attire: Boomers and Gen X were fine with going to business casual, but Gen Y is really more along the lines of “very casual” vs. “business casual.” Gen Yers are also significantly more pierced and tattooed than the majority of their older generational predecessors.
“Gen Y is also much less likely to respond to the traditional command-and-control type of management still popular in much of today’s workforce,” says Jordan ...
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