A GENERATIONAL SHIFT
But that’s not all that’s going on. Adam Kingl, director of learning solutions at the London Business School, notes that another topic that came up frequently at the Global Leadership Summit was millennials approach to work.
Flexibility "is the number one reason they’re attracted to a workplace," he says. "People want to take an afternoon off and catch up on Saturday morning." With younger workers being fully aware that you can email or call someone from anywhere, the idea of working differently becomes "a criterion that people are expressly looking for before they’ll sign on the dotted line," says Kingl. "It’s not a perk or reward.