Blass, Eileen. "Generation Y: They've Arrived at Work with a New Attitude." USA Today May-June 2005. This article is yet to be another big picture description of what generation Y is bring to the work force and how its our turn in time to run this country. There is no consensus over the exact birth dates that define Generation Y, also known by some as echo work, but they don't want work to be their life, states. (blass). I wanted to start off the summary of this paper with this quote because it is a good picture on how our generation is generalized. The articles goes over on who generation Y is, they're young, smart, brash. They may wear flip-flops to the office or listen to iPods at their desk. We are a generation of 70 million Americans born 1977 to 2002. Generation X was born roughly 1965 to 1976. The article then goes over on what generation Y has to bring to the work force and what affects they will have on it. As they take their first jobs, Generation Y would be the fastest-growing segment of the workforce — growing from 14% of the workforce to 21% over the past four years to nearly 32 million workers (Blass). This shows how fast our generation Y is taking over the work force. Then the article goes into who we are as generation Y, the good aspects along with the poor aspects we bring to the table. Generation Y has high expectations of Themselves. When in the workplace they aim to work faster and better than other workers. From the employers generation Y wants fair and direct managers who are highly engaged in their professional development. They seek out creative challenges and view colleagues as vast resources from whom to gain knowledge. From day one they want to make an important impact on the business. They want small goals with tight deadlines so they can build up ownership of tasks. The author speaks about how the generations that have gone before them, Generation Y has been pampered, nurtured and programmed with a laziness since they were toddlers, meaning they are both high-performance and high-maintenance. They also believe in their own worth. The author also goes into how generation Y is financially smart; today's newest entrants into the workforce are generally savvy
when it comes to money and savings. They care about such benefits as 401(k) retirement plans. It goes into how generation Y on how they have seen the money scandals in our coutry, and that they're skeptical when it comes to such concepts as employee loyalty. They don't like to stay too long on any one assignment. This is a generation of multitaskers, and they can juggle e-mail on their BlackBerrys while talking on cellphones while being online. It finally goes into how generation Y dress-codes concerning in the work place are changing. They think its ok to wear flip flops and t-shirts to work. This another point on how generation Y is changing the work force. Many may not like it which is why past generations are having trouble mixing in with the current generation.
There are many key topics that I thought to be very relevant to generation Y starting to take over Americas's new age work force. For instance, they seek out creative challenges and view colleagues as vast resources from whom to gain knowledge. This is key to have an successful work force and economy, because if a past generation doesn't want to learn from the past generations how are the going to learn and gain insights how how past generations made mistakes in certain areas and how they came to over come problems within there professions. Another key point of how generation Y from day one wants to make an important impact on the business. This is true because generation Y was born into a very high paced, competitive world from birth unlike the past generations. We want to be the best and want to rise to higher strengths because that's what we were taught begingining with early schooling to playing sports. Yet another strong point is generation Y has been pampered, nurtured and programmed with a laziness since they were toddlers, meaning they are both high-performance and high-maintenance. I thought this was important because it is true in most cases. We were brought pampered and programmed with laziness, but was that generation Y's fault? In some ways yes, but it was also brought on by numerous things such as: our parents, our country, electronics, call phones, computers, and many other things. Generation Y starting to take over the current work force in my mind is a blessing. Yes, its going to take work mixing in with the past generations rules in law's but generation Y has so much to bring that past generations don't.
I choose this source because it was another very interesting article about how generation Y joining the american work force has many worried but also many exited for the aspects we have to bring to the table. I wanted to learn more about older generations feelings about generation Y coming into the working world and what were the perks and the downfall of generation Y. From here I could write a research \ on the cost and bnifits of our generation Y joining today's work force
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