Gen Y Workers Reinventing IT for the Better

buzzardsbay writes "We all know the complaints about young employees. They depend too much on their parents' money, they need constant hand-holding, they have no job loyalty, they demand more than they're worth, they disrespect older employees, and they're naive about corporate culture. But despite this conventional wisdom, there's growing evidence that the different working styles of Gen Y workers might be causing fundamental — and beneficial — changes in the way enterprises run, especially when it comes to IT. For example, they may show better judgment when making tech purchases and are often better with green IT initiatives. This is a nice counterpoint to a previous story (and resulting incendiary comments) that dubbed young tech workers a risk to corporate networks."

Comments

Re:Younger workers are bolder and more informed.

[avandesande]

Wow. Remind me to never hire someone like you.

Starting salary should be $195k

[michaelmalak]

The only starting salary chart I could quickly find on Google is for Math PhDs. For full-year teaching/research, the starting salary in 1965 was $10,400 and in 2000 was $51,000. To adjust for inflation, I use official CPI values until 1988, and shadowstats.com after that, which computes the CPI according to pre-Greenspan forumlas. Eyeballing the inflation rate for each year from the chart at shadowstats.com and plugging those numbers into Excel, I get that inflation from 1988 to 2008 was 502% (i.e. 5x). Using the official BLS calculator, inflation from 1965 to 1988 was 390% (i.e. 3.9x). Taking these together, we get that the 2008 starting salary for a Math PhD should be $195k, adjusting for inflation from 1965. Not for someone experienced. Starting salary.

No wonder Gen Y is cynical about salaries.

Re:Job Loyalty? How about orker loyalty?

[The End Of Days]

Well, I'm only a Gen-Xer, but it seems that you are an exception to the rule when it comes to Gen Y. Bullshit. People born after you are no worse than you are, just like people born before you are no better. Don't get your panties in a wad over your own superiority, people are still people, and pretty much the same.

Re:Job Loyalty? How about orker loyalty?

[geminidomino]

Give respect, receive respect is a lazy thinker's mantra to excuse bad behavior. I give respect whether or not it is deserved, and believe it or not it leaves me a superior position. Whether "Bent over with your lips permanently sewn to some dickhead's left cheek" is a "superior position" is rather a subjective call.