Millennials In The Work Place

Summary:

This is a report based on surveys on the mindset of the millennial generation and exploring how organisations can improve employee engagement and encourage retention. Two surveys were conducted; one with 40,000 millennial and non-millennial participation on the topics of workplace culture, communication and working styles, pay structure, career development, work-life balance, etc and the second group with 10,000 millennials participation in a study about their perceptions of the threats and opportunities in the complex world of work. 
According to the result of two studies, millennials were committed same as more senior colleagues, valued interesting work and a good work-life balance, required flexibility in their working hours, want to supported and appreciated in their workplace, want more opportunities to develop their technological, teamwork and interpersonal skills and they are likely to be loyal to a company with strong ethics.
Recommendations were given to organisations and managers such as monitoring the workload, provide flexible work culture, providing interesting work opportunities, offering support professional development and changing the organisation's goals from profit-making to social concerns in the community.