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Why ‘lazy’, ‘entitled’ millennials can’t last 90 days at work
nypost ^ | 03/12/2019 | Frank Chung

Posted on 03/12/2019 2:05:35 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Millennials struggle to make it past the crucial 90-day mark when starting a new job largely due to “own goals” such as lateness and absenteeism, a HR expert says.

Greg Weiss, who specializes in developing “onboarding” programs to help improve retention rates, says businesses face a growing challenge with the new generation.

According to Deloitte, millennials will make up 75 percent of the global workforce by 2025, but data shows this cohort have a much higher churn rate — and it’s costing money.

In 2015, the Australian arm of global consulting firm PwC estimated staff turnover in the first 12 months was costing Australian businesses $3.8 billion in lost productivity and $385 million in avoidable recruitment costs.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: entitled; lazy; milennials; work
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To: ChicagoConservative27
This is called Millennialitis, and there is NO CURE. The disease is rampant in SoCal and most big cities. The only possible cure is a lot like Chemotherapy, the Sick will only be cured after experiencing poverty, despair, bankruptcy and probably homelessness., and even that is not a guaranteed cure.
41 posted on 03/12/2019 3:03:50 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Late? Absent? Just look in the nearest food court ...


42 posted on 03/12/2019 3:07:51 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I don’t know what’s going on with kids these days. I am 63 and show up every day a few minutes early, work through lunch a few times a week and punch out on time. I’ve taken 1 day sick in 5 years. Some of the 20 somethings have a habit of showing up several minute to 15 minutes late, take a few minutes extra for lunch and have frequent sick days on Mondays and Fridays. They often cut out early for a variety of reasons, most of which sound bogus. They seem to be the valued employees. Oh well I can see retirement from my seat.


43 posted on 03/12/2019 3:08:05 PM PDT by spudville
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To: Dilbert San Diego
“Sometimes I think that these young people, who have been coddled through school and through college in many cases, need a “boot camp” type of experience, to introduce them to the “real world””

Sometimes I think that if the USA is invaded by an overwhelming foreign power, these young people will give a collective “meh,” and go back to their Iphones.

*before they are all mowed down by bullets fired by young, foreign soldiers who have not been coddled into imbecility.

44 posted on 03/12/2019 3:08:54 PM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: Responsibility2nd

“You miss the point. The blame is NOT with companies.”


According to the last couple of paragraphs in the article a lot of the fault IS with the companies.

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45 posted on 03/12/2019 3:09:19 PM PDT by Mears
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To: ChicagoConservative27; All


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46 posted on 03/12/2019 3:09:29 PM PDT by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: RedStateRocker

Yep.

It may not be a popular view, but I also think modern jobs tend to be more soulless than the lower-tech ones once were.

Hard to really be excited about a lot of tech-related stuff, though it pays decently. Sales and marketing jobs are still commonplace and they may feel manipulative if you don’t particularly believe in the product. The whole HR game is pretty oppressive of course too.


47 posted on 03/12/2019 3:09:34 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: RedStateRocker

What a joke. The very reason your idea won’t work is that the market will not allow it

You sound like a dyed in the wool union steward


48 posted on 03/12/2019 3:09:45 PM PDT by bert ( (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Honduras must be invaded to protect America from invasion)
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To: RedStateRocker
Thirty or forty years or so ago a person out of college could get a job that would allow them to buy a house and start a family.

This!

When I came of age, jobs were plentiful and paid pretty well compared to the cost of food and housing. Jobs are plentiful right now, but they don't pay very well at all. Our political and corporate elites are trying to keep it that way.

We should stop bashing the Millennials. They have been handed lot of pretty lies and told to make the best of it. Most of them are making their way as best they can.

The paths that we took are not generally available to them.

49 posted on 03/12/2019 3:12:32 PM PDT by flamberge
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To: Responsibility2nd

Wrong. Like my current job quite well.

I remember WELL being treated like crap when out of work during the recession after getting laid off.

Laughing my ass off at employers who “can’t get qualified people”. There is only one reason they can’t: they don’t deserve them.


50 posted on 03/12/2019 3:14:13 PM PDT by RedStateRocker
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To: ChicagoConservative27
This problem is made possible by the fact that there are jobs going begging, thus making it possible for the newbie employee to flit from one job to another.

This is a historical anomaly that will not last. In due course, it will self correct. These same smug newbies will find themselves in a competitive environment of job scarcity, and will not have a clue as to what happened..

51 posted on 03/12/2019 3:15:16 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard (Power is more often surrendered than seized.)
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To: bert

What are you trying to say.

The market works fine.

Whiners whine.

Pay people enough or get crap workers. Is that too hard for you to comprehend.

What part of “you get what you pay for” is too difficult to understand.

You sound like a business owner who is pissed they can’t pay tiny wages and treat people like crap anymore.

Love this Trump economy.


52 posted on 03/12/2019 3:17:11 PM PDT by RedStateRocker
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To: Dilbert San Diego
So what’s up with the work ethic of this younger generation?

They don't have any. Serious problem. They've been coddled way too much.

53 posted on 03/12/2019 3:18:30 PM PDT by upchuck (Home schooled kids are educated, not indoctrinated.)
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To: eyeamok

It’s called cheap-assed employeritis.

There used to be a time that a college graduate’s first job allowed them to buy a house. And have a few kids. With a stay-at-home wife. And retire at 62.

The cheap-assed whiner in the article, and some of the pathetic corporate socialists who agree with his analysis don’t think this should be the case.

Show me bad employees, I’ll show you an employer that deserves them.


54 posted on 03/12/2019 3:21:13 PM PDT by RedStateRocker
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To: hinckley buzzard

Used to be a graduate could buy a house and start a family.

Hopefully we are returning to that time and the screwing of grads and general working stiffs is coming to an end.


55 posted on 03/12/2019 3:23:21 PM PDT by RedStateRocker
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Posting this just for the heck of it!... Lauren Bacall in her own words..

"In a 1996 interview, Bacall, reflecting on her life, told the interviewer that she had been lucky: "I had one great marriage, I have three great children and four grandchildren. I am still alive. I still can function. I still can work", adding, "You just learn to cope with whatever you have to cope with. I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and buses. And you know what you learn if you're a New Yorker? The world doesn't owe you a damn thing."

smart lady!!

56 posted on 03/12/2019 3:23:42 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: ChicagoConservative27
“One in three millennials will turn over in the first 90 days. The reasons for failing, 62 percent is poor performance, 50 percent is absence, 25 percent is lateness and 30 percent is gross misconduct.”

I think I see the problem...

-PJ

57 posted on 03/12/2019 3:24:43 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: RedStateRocker

Being a union thug has nothing to do with a free labor market!
Only an indoctrinated communist union thug work think it does!


58 posted on 03/12/2019 3:24:48 PM PDT by sausageseller (If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage. M, Thatcher)
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59 posted on 03/12/2019 3:27:46 PM PDT by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: Political Junkie Too

“I think I see the problem...”


Did you read the article?

At the end he blames the companies that hire them.

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60 posted on 03/12/2019 3:29:39 PM PDT by Mears
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