Companies and organizations have gone to great lengths to study
Generation Y's lifestyles and buying habits, understanding what makes their minds tick and their wallets open.
The study found that Generation X took longer to recognise disruptive technologies than
Generation Y. Families should actively consider strategies that capitalise of
Generation Y's digital diversities and absorb home-grown digital natives in their response to technological disruption.
Generation Y members in the UK spend $534.8m a month on live experiences or events and 78 per cent say they would rather spend their money on a desirable experience than on a desirable object.
The youngest generation in today's workforce is
Generation Y. The group of young individuals born between the years of 1980 and 1999 is commonly known as
Generation Y (Jennings, 2000).
The nursing workforce currently includes four generations--veterans, baby boomers, Generation X and
Generation Y. The literature provides the following definitions:
Designed with
Generation Y's travel tendencies in mind, Experiential Events by The Ritz-Carlton Abu Dhabi, Grand Canal are weekly workshops hosted by the hotel's cultural ambassadors at the executive Club Lounge.
Jeffries and Hunte (2003) described the four generations in the workplace as: the Silent Generation born between 1925 and 1945, Baby Boomers born between 1946 and 1964, Generation X born between 1965 and 1980, and
Generation Y born between 1981 and 2000.
This year's award went to David Moisey, Senior Manager Retail Development at Samsung Electronics Canada for infusing Samsung stores with the Samsung Smart Fragrance, specially formulated by Tracy Pepe to capture the essence of
Generation Y.
Huffington Post Canada has called Sarika Cullis-Suzuki one of "
Generation Y's leaders, game-changers, and inspirational figures." She recently turned thirty.
On the supply side, we're also forming a clearer picture of
generation Y's expectations about the conduct and reputation of their employers.
The research found one in three men had asked out someone through social media, with that figure reaching more than 50 per cent when it came to
generation Y's dating habits.