Gen X Is in Charge. Don’t Make a Big Deal About It.
Gen X Is in Charge. Don’t Make a Big Deal About It.
The original “latchkey kids” are grown up, in the boss’s seat and ready to make the rules. If that’s OK?
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Are they in charge? Doesn't seem like it in the U.S. The president is a boomer, his likely rival is a boomer, most of congressional leadership are boomers... it's boomers in charge. Can't wait until they die out.
They cover that in the article. They mean incoming people running companies. So the corporate world. Not politics. The article is about workplace environments.
Our prime minister in the UK is just a year too old to be a millennial (born 1980) and he’s still completely out of touch with reality.
That's because he's obscenely rich rather than his age though.
Research from Stanford points to generational divides on remote work. Workers over 55 (mostly boomers) prefer to work remotely around 35 percent of the time, while workers in their early twenties (Gen Z) preferred to be remote about 45 percent of the time and workers in their 30s and 40s preferred to work from home closer to half the time. In other words, Gen Xers have become the unlikely warriors for flexible work.