Cohousing-L Mailing List: Millennial Definition

[William New (wnew]

> On Oct 24, 2015, at 2:17 PM, Sharon Villines <sharon [at] sharonvillines.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> Aside from Wikipedia are these common definitions?

In the workplace and research fields, yes:

http://www.amazon.com/Millennials-Management-Essential-Guide-Making/dp/1629560278/ref=sr_1_3?

Demographers separate generations by roughly 20 year intervals.  There may be 
some different of opinion where these generations actually start/end, and there 
may be some granularity in describing an Early Millennial versus a Mid or Late 
Millennial, for example (Human Resource folks notice the difference).

The smaller population of GenXers, however, quickly notice the (frustrating) 
differences between themselves and the herd of Millennials who follow in terms 
of work ethic.  To Boomers and early GenXers, for example, work-life “balance” 
is metaphorically a weight scale, keeping work and life largely separate (but 
balanced).  To Millennials, work-life is entangled spaghetti throughout the 
day, and indeed throughout the week.  There are a number of other salient 
differences (which those of us in the business world observe and work 
around/through), especially in the startup culture (good example: Millennials 
just “start” and proceed with no business or financial plans, driving investors 
and bankers crazy). 

A different world in many ways.

=== Bill

William New
StillCreek Commons
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