The WSJ Tells the Olds How to Work with Those Pesky Millennials

MIT researcher and aging specialist Joseph Coughlin has a bit more credibility than other Wall Street Journal “experts” like Morgan Fairchild and Suzanne Sommers, but a recent post in which he discusses the challenges of employing “the kids today” (and the very fact that someone titled it “A Survival Guide to Working with Millennials“) is a pretty good example of why this discussion grows so dull. Some “key takeaways”:

“…your younger colleagues…have grown up believing that productive interactions are online, on text and on video”

Because that couldn’t possibly be true.

“Just because there is not a rectangular table with you sitting at the head does not mean that work isn’t being done.”

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