A friend who recruits for an investment bank grumbled to me recently about millennial job applicants. He said that at interview they ask questions like: “Can I leave early on Friday afternoons to go to yoga?”
Surveys have shown for years that most millennials — male and female — don’t want to work all hours. In recent studies by Deloitte and career-monitoring website Comparably, younger workers placed “work-life balance” above career progression. Millennials want to get home on time to raise their kids — or at least play some Nintendo.
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By Simon Kuper
Source: Financial Times
Consumer-goods companies are setting ambitious sustainability targets for themselves. To reach those targets, however, changes are required along the entire value chain—with a concrete road map.
The level of volatility will not slow down in 2022. New Covid variants will continue to emerge and may cause workplaces to temporarily go remote again. Hybrid work will create more unevenness around how much different employees are working. Many will have real wage cuts as annual compensation increases fall behind inflation. All these will be layered on top of technological transformation, DE&I journeys, and ongoing political disruption and uncertainty.
1 January may seem like an arbitrary date to start self-improvement, but there are good psychological reasons for doing so. For those who don’t follow this tradition, the very act of creating a New Year’s resolution can seem illogical. Recent psychological research, however, suggests that there are many good reasons to begin a new regime on the first day of a new year. And by understanding and capitalising on those mechanisms, we can all increase our chances of sticking to our new goals for 2022.
