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.
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So what’s up with the work ethic of this younger generation?
They feel entitled to a six figure income, for an easy job sitting in front of a computer screen all day?
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”, the world of work which they will be part of. Many seem to have unrealistic expectations of what the business world is really like.
If you can’t get the quality and quantity of people you need, you aren’t paying enough, or are throwing up stupid requirements not germane to the job (which is anything other than quantifiable performance or sociopathic misconduct).
90 days??
More like 90 minutes... Tops!
Which explains why lazy, entitled Millenials intend to vote-in Socialism.
“While he didn’t want to generalize and say “every millennial is like this,” Weiss said “broadly it’s an entitled generation” and “probably also over-informed as well.”
“People are constantly on their phones, constantly wired to hear where the grass is greener,” he said”
Wow, and I though millennials could whine. Somebody needs to beeyotch-slap that “consultant” (’con’=’insult’)
Yep, and needing ‘safe spaces’ and can’t deal with a ‘boss’ that demands production.
They have been pampered by parents, teachers and society until they have no concept of actually having to survive and compete in the REAL WORLD...................
Let them work in construction for a year. That will wake them up.
Especially if there’s a MAGA hat anywhere nearby
You miss the point.
I am not sure about that. But I am sure that most of them are not making a six-figure income. The ones I work with are getting peanuts.
They still show up to work though, and perform admirably under demanding requirements. I have no complaints about their work ethics.
Your mileage may vary of course.
No, I just utterly disagree with it.
Sounds like parents aren't teaching that skill.
They need to see parents who work hard and expect the kids to help out at home.
When you clean out the garage or work on the car you have them hold the tools for you without their phones in their pocket. You plan time together where they help out like camping or you take them over to your brother's house to help him build a fence.
I think maybe parents think that the school will teach that skill. All kids learn in school is how to stand in line.
Many seem to have unrealistic expectations of what the business world is really like.
We only hire MAGA people in our production company. And yes, we’ve had emails where we CLEARLY instruct applicants to fill in our secured form to apply for a position and they come back with...”why? I have a resume.”
My point is that if one believes in the Free Market, and one sees that a company can recruit and retain the people it needs on a consistent basis, then the company is at fault for either paying to little and/or creating a work environment that is sufficiently unpleasant for the people to stay. Assuming that they have a competent hiring process.
Zero sympathy for businesses that can’t hire or retain functional people because of either crap pay, bad vetting in the hiring process or having a workplace where people don’t want to stay. Screw ‘em.
OOPS “CAN’T” recruit and retain, DOH!
My experience is different than described by the article. I work in technology and I have had a lot of millennials work for me over the past few years, and found them to be smart, hardworking and eager to learn. I’ve seen few cases of the 90 day turnover.
But, the key is to hire smartly and be rigorous in our interview processes and with our back channeling.
They go through skrewl indoctrination centers for 12-16 years or more.
Then get out to find the real world is nothing like they learned.
Poor snowflakes. Poor POOR snowflakes.
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