Maybe it was Google who started it. Or perhaps it was Facebook. The workplace that employees yearn for today - millennials more than anyone else - is of a trendy, brightly-coloured, architecturally-designed, open plan office. Where there are swimming pools and basketball courts to wind down in or bounce ideas around (in-between changing the world), instead of a scruffy canteen with paint peeling off the walls. Where bosses appear indiscriminate to their employees, as everyone walks around in trendy leisure wear or T-shirts and jeans.
Where all the cool kids work.
It’s not just the look of Google’s office that’s attractive to millennials; their values and the way they’ve overhauled our lives are both aspirational and inspirational elements. The perception that every worker is valued, and as important as all those before him, is welcome when compared with many large corporations a little older round the gills. The size of these older companies, its hierarchy, culture and structure means employees on the front line often feel nothing more than a number – slaving away at a job they feel their boss believes anyone can do.
Maybe it’s exactly the ‘Google’ perception that’s driving today’s millennials in the UK to shy away from the conglomerates and huge brands that have been household names for decades. Statistics show that many millennials are looking to work with much smaller, newer companies instead: start-ups.
Money isn’t the driver in this day and age – certainly not more so than feeling the way you spend your working hours actually means something…changes something…creates something. Millennials have more of a voice than workers of their parents’ generation, and of every generation before that, and they want to be heard, taken seriously, be involved.
The location of the company they work for is another significant factor. Whilst millennials in the UK can’t all hop over to Silicon Valley, they can make a conscious decision to look for jobs and roles in trendy parts of the cities they live in.
It’s lucky millennials feel this way, because start-ups, apparently, can’t get enough of them. They represent the workforce’s largest demographic; they have the right spread of yesteryears’ and futuristic skills to cope with any aspect of a role; and they’re enthusiastic, rather than jaded from bad jobs or a long, monotonous career.
For recruiters, this futuristic, aspirational perception of the workplace will be important to those they want to attract. Traditional methods and approaches may not attract uber-trendy, highly educated, visionary talent; explaining the duties of a certain role, for example, may not sound as attractive as exciting projects they could be working on.
Change, innovation and adaptation are elements of any industry; to attract someone with vision, you must present one yourself.
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Original article: http://blog.realmatch.com/employers/millennials-loving-start-ups-traditional-companies-less/
