Intelligence Briefing: The Millennial Workforce and HR Disruption

Rumor has it that millennials are lazy, skill-lacking, unprepared digital-addicts. It is time to throw these assumptions away.

Jon Miner | June 06, 2016

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Millennials are the Largest Group in the Workforce.

Last year, we noted millennials (Generation Y) had surpassed Generation X as the largest group in the workforce. Since that time, rumor has it that millennials come from a certain mold; they are lazy, skill-lacking, unprepared digital-addicts. It is time to throw these assumptions away—within the next ten years millennials will make up 75 percent of the global workforce and 50 percent of the professional services industry.

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