{"id":5564,"date":"2013-12-07T16:55:44","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T22:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5564"},"modified":"2013-12-07T16:55:44","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T22:55:44","slug":"the-gen-y-revolution-that-may-never-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5564","title":{"rendered":"The Gen Y revolution that may never come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/1c626dc0-55c3-11e3-96f5-00144feabdc0.html?siteedition=intl#axzz2mbsB6ncK\">Andrew Hill:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is always irritating to be stereotyped, but it must be particularly galling for cash-strapped, educated members of \u201cGeneration Y\u201d to be told by demographers, marketers and futurologists that they have to get out and shake up management and the world of work.<\/p>\n<p>Globally, under-30s may be \u201cirreverent, change-seeking, challenging, better informed, mobile, and connected\u201d, as Mois\u00e9s Na\u00edm describes them in his new book, <a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/?q=%22The+End+of+Power%22+Mois%C3%A9s+Na%C3%ADm\">The End of Power<\/a>. But the FT\u2019s \u201cClass of the Crunch\u201d series has underlined that, in Britain at least, recent graduates are paying more for education and housing and earning less than their predecessors. Changing the world of work is the last thing on most of their minds: they have to get into it first.<\/p>\n<p>Once there, new recruits find the reality of long hours at lean organisations that make few concessions to inexperience a shock, after years of cosseting by their baby boomer parents. London Business School\u2019s Lynda Gratton details the challenges ahead in her book The Shift. She reprimanded an audience of older executives at the recent FT Innovate conference for giving young employees such \u201ccrap-awful work\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Hill: It is always irritating to be stereotyped, but it must be particularly galling for cash-strapped, educated members of \u201cGeneration Y\u201d to be told by demographers, marketers and futurologists that they have to get out and shake up management and the world of work. Globally, under-30s may be \u201cirreverent, change-seeking, challenging, better informed, mobile, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5565,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5564\/revisions\/5565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}