Millennials have a reputation for not being intensely loyal to their employers and willing to change jobs quickly – but is that reputation deserved? A couple of researchers who are themselves millennials set out to test negative perceptions about workers born between 1981 and 1996 – and some of their results are surprising.
“Being millennials ourselves, there seem to be many misconceptions of how we are expected to work, be rewarded, or want to socialize,” said Michelle Goro. She and Brittani Plaisance, both of Infor Talent Science, are presenting “Using Science to Debunk Millennial Rumors in the Workplace,” this month at the 2018 Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) in Chicago, Illinois.