Younger Workers are Family-Centric

10/18/2007

Younger Workers are Family-Centric

Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.
Thomas Fuller

Research conducted by the Families and Work Institute and reported in the Work & Family Life newsletter (December 2004; www.workandfamilylife.com) shows that younger workers are far more family-centered than their predecessors. The study found that...

Baby boomers (aged 28-57) tend to be more work-centered than other generations
Individuals in Generation-X (ages 23-37) and Generation-Y (below 23) tend to be dual-centric (placing equal priority on work and family) or family-centric.

Ellen Gallinsky, President of the Families and Work Institute, gives this explanation for the shift:

Children of boomers "were the children of divorce. They saw people who gave their all to work and then lost their jobs. And, today, they don’t want to be stick figures in their children’s lives.”

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