Each company has tried to create a work culture that not only focuses on what needs to get done but also accommodates the various ways in which people approach work. These companies have also designed workplaces that reflect the sensibilities of multiple generations, not just the preferences of top executives. Finally, companies that are smart about bridging the generation gap at work tend to take the high road when it comes to attitudes about work itself. They believe that employees of all generations, and especially younger workers, see their work as something to be enjoyed and cultivated, not something to be shirked. That attitude has allowed the Dallas- based T.G.I. Friday's, a chain of more than 500 restaurants, to retain its best workers, even as it lets them indulge their youthful wanderlust.
Veterans account for a higher proportion of all self-employed workers than any other age group.
Nostradamus, a 16th-century French astrologer, predicted that a major crisis would come with the next millennium. During the next 10 years, a boomer will turn 50 every 7.5 seconds. Eighty percent of all new businesses started in the past three years belong to Xers. You ain't seen nothin' yet. Mixing Xer managers and supervisors with a Nexter workforce looks like a recipe for a future disaster.