millennials

CM 216: Megan Gerhardt on Navigating a Multi-Generational Workplace

For the first time in U.S. history, we have employees from five different generations working side by side. With so many different perspectives and life experiences, conflict is inevitable. Unfortunately, this often leads to stereotyping. We classify colleagues as millennial snowflakes, entitled young people, or clueless boomers. When this happens, we miss out on some…

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CM 171: Anne Helen Petersen on Workplace Burnout

How did we get to a place where life’s become an endless treadmill of work? In her latest book, Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation, Anne Helen Petersen tackles this question. Her book is for anyone who feels their life has become an endless to-do list. In particular, Petersen describes the plight of…

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CM 146: Lindsey Pollak on the Multigenerational Workplace

How does work change when we have five generations in the workplace at once? For the first time in history, there are five different generations working alongside one another in the workplace. In some organizations, that makes for a potential 60-year age difference among employees and, for that reason alone, it makes sense that there…

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