Category Archives: Workforce Demographics

What different age cohorts are doing and thinking aboaut on the job.

Workplace Demographics: Are Professions Filled With Career Changers?

Two years ago we asked first-year medical students, law students, dental students, and veterinary students if they planned to retire from their respective professions.  Here’s what we found:  30 percent of medical students know right now they will not practice … Continue reading

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Workplace Demographics: Managing Conflicting Expectations

(Being seen) catering to younger workers at the expense of the Boomers is dumb.  If even one Boomer said, “Those twentysomethings (millennials) have no work ethic,” the unspoken rest of the sentence was, “And I’m not picking up after them.  If … Continue reading

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Workplace Demographics: “I don’t like them either.”

(This is the second half of Monday’s post on the generational divide, “They don’t like me.”) After my friend finished her second martini she said, “If I could replace everyone on my team with someone my age, even if it … Continue reading

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