“Do your little bit of good where you are, it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
- Desmond Tutu
The new generation want work to be an extension of who they are, meaning work with a purpose. It’s all different for everybody on how they view work-life balance. What I will say is that the market will demand more flexibilities and companies will have to start thinking about work-life balance differently and how they interact with employees and what that looks like for the different generations and be able to understand the different values of the people coming in and out of the workforce.
The environmentalist stereotypes most people envision is the hippie, trippy, long-haired white person concerned with vegan food, recycling, carbon footprint reducing, exploring nature and fighting for the animals. This narrow perception according to Drutman, ignores the fact that most people of color came from ancestors who had been stewards of the earth for thousands of years.
According to recent data through Futurecast an agency focused on millennial and Gen Z research, millennials make up about 25% of the U.S. population. As the new upcoming homeowner generation, they have a very different outlook about achieving the American the dream. Since most millennials experienced the great recession during their foundational adult years, many are unlikely to reach the level of financial stability their parents did at the ages they are now. Millennials are changing what use to be considered the “status quo” of going to school, getting married, buying a home and having children. Instead, many millennials find themselves in a unique position or even at a crossroads with what used to be expected of them as adults and where they are in life.
