TEXTE 13 : MILLENNIALS

You've seen the headlines. Millennials are "entitled" at work. We're the "Me Me Me Generation," and, apparently, we want "success on a plate." But, maybe it's time for employers to take a cold, hard look in the mirror and ask themselves this: Are you as receptive as you could be to the skills and ideas that millennials are bringing to the table? Given that 35 percent of the workforce will consist of millennials by 2020—and a further 24 percent will be Gen Z workers—it's time to start ditching the negative epithets, and start embracing this generation's assets at work. Emma Gannon—author of The Multi-Hyphen Method, a book about what the future of the workplace might look like—says millennials get labelled "entitled" because "they get frustrated" by outdated and rigid workplace environments which aren't open to doing things differently. Gannon says that because millennials grew up online, we're a generation that taught ourselves digital skills and shortcuts during our teenage years. "Millennials really stand out to me as a generation that's been experimental from an early age," she told Mashable. "I grew up using MySpace, teaching myself how to code, learning basic HTML, trying to create something visually exciting. My friends would come round after school and we’d build our own websites and take pictures of each other and upload them."