Millennials continue to puzzle the general population. Many Boomers are still trying to pinpoint how millennials approach life. They are trying to understand how to impress millennial colleagues, how to sell to them, or how to retain them as employees. Boomers want to know what it was like to grow up with today’s technology, and how that impacts one’s outlook.
Just because there is a lot being written about Gen Y in the media does not mean that anyone really understands anything. In fact, many millennials are truly unique, and can’t really be meaningfully categorized in any black or white box.
The reality is that millennials were not shaped by just three TV channels – their culture stems from access to millions of different websites and Youtube channels, unfiltered points of view, a wealth of diversity, and recent world events.
And while we don’t want to put millennials in a box, we do like to focus on data. Take away your own conclusions from the following infographic.
29 Facts That Might Make You See Millennials Differently
Today’s infographic is from Gordon Tredgold, and it looks at 29 facts that may help you see millennials differently – particularly in the workplace.
Courtesy of: Visual Capitalist
Gordon – thank you – this has certainly got my mind a-ticking …. for example – I assume that this data is US centric – thats the only way I can reconcile number 28 … and 1,2 and 3 is arguably because of failed policy decision of people in power before they came along … number 7 – don’t we all ? number 8 – who does ? number 18/19 – I wonder how much of that is related to the fact that most people can’t live on a single wage anyway – not to mention that if they really believe number 4 …. then why are they taking a second job ? number 22 … really ? I think Boomers back in the day were more loyal – and then the corporate and social promises were broken …
It would be great to see data behind this ….. I see the links to Fortune, Forbes et al – but not renowned for hard analysis IMHO.