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Generational Awareness in the Workplace

Demographic change is one of the least understood yet profoundly important issues facing organizations today. The “working-age population” in the U.S. — those from age 16 to 64 — is contracting at a pace not experienced since World War II. Unlike that period, there is no “baby boom” behind it, and none is expected in the near future. Generation Z has three million fewer people than the Millennial generation, and Generation Alpha, which follows Gen Z, is expected to be even smaller.

Due largely to early retirements and a caustic mix of ageism and cost-cutting measures, businesses let too many older workers go during the pandemic — and when they left, so did a lot of institutional memory, expertise, and loyalty. Those employers didn’t account for the reality that there might be too few younger workers to fill those roles as the pandemic subsided. Continue reading from Harvard Business Review

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Link to Kids These Days by Harris in the catalog
Link to The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw in the catalog
Link to iGen by Twenge in the catalog
Link to The Gen Z Effect by Tom Koulopoulos and Dan Keldsen in Hoopla
Link to The Gen Y Handbook by by Diane E. Spiegel in Hoopla
Link to Baby Boomer by Gerard Thompson in Hoopla