Artemis astronaut ages ranging from 47 to 50. They are all GenXers, in a "sweet spot" of maximum competence and experience. Meanwhile at ExxonMobil’s we can’t abuse our Gen X employees enough and can’t run them off fast enough.
Millennials just wait you are next in line.
@a9 Nope. Gen X doesn't prefer to be in the office. We want to be left alone. We are after all, the latchkey generation.
@c0 What age range do executives fall in?
Hint: almost none who aren’t in tech are millenials or zoomers.
So yeah, proving the point again: GenX and the boomer remnants forced everyone back to the office because they’re worried about their portfolios and are propagandized controls freaks.
More generalizations. Truth is — return to offc was another decision made in the C-suite for financial reasons. With respect to campus, min occupancy levels required to retain tax benefits. There were lots of bad actors that NEVER came to the offc & mgrs didn’t do their job to address or balance. That made it bad for everyone which evolved into policy clarification “rules” and a dashboard to measure behaviors. So can stop blaming a generation… it was corp decision rooted in the mighty dollar.
Gen X here… don’t blame us for Boomers rules such as in person attendance. If Millennials or Gen Z want to help, push the Boomers out… Gen X is known for adapting so we’ll support the structures wanted by future generations and actually help you set them up!
@a9 GenX here. I don’t need everyone to be in the office just because I prefer to be there. In Houston I prefer hybrid. The commute these days is aweful.
@a7 GenX by far has the biggest hard-on for being in-office. I attribute this to all of those lame AF sitcoms from the 80s and 90s that were mostly soft corporate propaganda.
@a7 fully support everything you said. I hope they can make it happen and force some changes. The current situation is unsustainable
@a5 1) In the office work, Gen Z does not want to spend 40+ hours working in an office and not receive proper raises. Some of them don't even like commuting. 2) Meetings all day that does not help with a solution to hands on work. 3) The redundancy of corporate culture. 4) Theatrics, upper management and executives love theatrics or pre-mediated senarios. Both Millenials and Gen Z are running from that. 5) Millenials and Gen Z are leaving America in significant numbers but Gen X and Boomers are unaware of this because they're too busy working or just out of touch (which they don't have to be but choose to be). 6) The generations mentioned feel betrayed because corporations are paying executives more than they're worth but will bring in H1B visas and not hire from within.
I'm not speaking in absolutes, so there will be some Gen Z'ers who are okay with it temporarily. Save, invest, quit -> that'll be their routine.
@OP You just made the case for letting people go after a certain age.
BTW, plenty of rich democracies have a mandatory retirement age. America is the only place I’ve ever been where people are still working into their 70s because they “like what they do.”
@a4 help me under your comment please. What is it that they are against?
Millennials are not going to want those opportunities, at least not a lot of them. Gen Z is completely against the current structures. They think they're outdated. There will be a massive shift after Gen X and Boomers are gone.
Ageism is how HR operates these days. Hope there is a lawsuit someday.