Armour, Stephanie. "They've Arrived at Work with a New Attitude." USA Today. Web. 10 Oct. 2011. <http://www.riverregionchamber.net/AboutChamber/Media/GenerationY.pdf>.
First, The author goes over on who she thinks generation why is and how they are coming into this world. She goes into how there is no consensus over the exact birth dates that define Gen Y, also known by some as echo boomers and millennials. She states that more than 70 million Generation Y Americans born 1977 to 2002. The author then goes into our numbers in the workforce, Gen 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. She then goes into our attributes and overall thoughts as a generation. High expectations of ourselves, that we aim to work faster and better than other workers, that we have high expectations of employers, we want fair and direct managers who are highly engaged in their professional development. How we want ongoing learning, that we seek out creative challenges and view colleagues as resources from whom to gain knowledge. Our immediate responsibility, we want to make an important impact on day 1. Also, how we aregoal-oriented, we want small goals with tight deadlines so they can build up ownership of tasks. She goes into our financial smarts. She states, "After witnessing the financial insecurity that beset earlier generations stung by layoffs and the dot-com bust, 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." She goes into how we always want change, that generation Yers don't expect to stay in a job, or even a career, for too long. We have seen the scandals that happened in the past and we are skeptical when it comes to such concepts as employee loyalty. We have conflicts when it comes to business attire, how we want to casually dress. As a generation used to casual fare such as flip-flops, tattoos and capri pants, and need to learn
more traditional attire is required at the office. She further more goes into the perks of our generation Y's recruitment into the work place. For example, Xerox is stepping up recruitment of students at "core colleges," which is how the company refers to universities that have the kind of talent Xerox needs. That our generation is way more user friendly to technology than any other past generation.
I thought there were many key phrases and points through out this article. When the author went into how our generation is the smartest generation with technology, and how it is having a big impact on the work force. This is true because we were born into a world that was based of technology. We grew up with many things and opportunities through technology that past generations did not have. When she goes into our attributes and overall thoughts as a generation I though was very key to the focus of her paper. We are bringing many new motivational thoughts and actions to this new age work force.
I chose this article because it was yet another article that had many thoughts about our generation entering the work force. It has many points that contradict other article that I have been through. It is a good atricle to use in my paper because it has many points that go against other authors points in there article's about our generation joining today's workforce. Overall, this article will be very key for me to prove that some points being made about my generation Yer's are false and that we have many positive things to bring to the work force today, but also things that we need to fix.
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