Here’s Why Millennials Really Aren’t That Different

By the year 2020 five separate generations will occupy the workplace: Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen 2020. In just five years, the newest person hired at a company could be working right next to her great grandfather. This half-century age gap is unprecedented. And with Millennials now the biggest proportion of our workforce, companies worry how they’ll make do with a generation that’s so self-pessimistic: According to a Pew Research Center survey, Millennials—more than all other generations—declared that traits like “responsible,” “hard-working,” “willing to sacrifice,” and “self-reliant,” did not describe them well.

But in their new book,  “,” organizational behavior researchers and come to different conclusions about what makes a Millennial. By surveying and interviewing more than 50,000 workers