Grief. Are you allowing your employees to process it?

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Grief. Are you allowing your employees to process it?

I have had several friends tell me that they have been working harder during this time than they have in years, their companies needing to evolve and adapt. They have been told that working from home means working just as hard as they did at the office. Now, not only do they not feel permission to grieve, they feel stressed to figure out if they are working ‘enough’ to please their employer. What if we all created a little space for each of us to be human during this time?

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The Gen X mantra, 'Get it done' & why it doesn’t work for Millennials

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The Gen X mantra, 'Get it done' & why it doesn’t work for Millennials

Gen X is aka the latchkey generation. These kids came home from school & let themselves in(this Is Illegal In some states now). The divorce rate had tripled & more women were working. Young Gen Xers found themselves making dinner, doing HW, babysitting siblings, & watching MTV. This is a generation of people who grew up figuring out things on their own. They brought this same mindset to the office.

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The Millennial/Gen Z office

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The struggle to retain top talent is forcing companies to step back and look at things from a new perspective. Many companies are taking inventory of the why behind what they are doing in the office. Rather than taking the stance of “This is how we have always done it here,” they are starting to imagine new ways of looking at things from the vantage point of a Millennial or Gen Zer rather than the status quo that has always existed. These generations have been immersed in an aesthetically pleasing world as they scroll through their social media feeds. As a result, they have come to highly value living and working in spaces that carry a good vibe.

The tip for today: If you have bookshelves, don’t put them in alphabetical order by the author’s last name so that you can systematically find them in a short amount of time (the only way that makes sense to Gen Xers and Boomers). In today’s aesthetically-oriented Instagram world, books must be ordered by color scheme.  You can find your favorite book according to the color of the cover and where it’s shade fits in among the other hues of blue. While older generations were taught to never judge a book by its cover, in today’s workforce the cover might be the only thing people ever see.