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Addressing Common Job Enrichment and Professional Growth
Challenges in a Multigenerational Workforce

As we have emphasized before, each employee’s challenges
and needs are individual ones, not generational. Neverthe-
less, there may be value in presenting a few of the concerns
that many employers are addressing in each of the four age
groups:

Traditionalists (born before 1946)

: Key concerns: Tapping their experience and expertise,
making sure they continue to feel valued, placing them
in mentoring and knowledge-transfer roles to younger
generations, giving them flexible and part-time options
to contribute, giving them opportunities to leave a lasting
legacy, and challenging them to learn new technologies.

Boomers (born 1946–1964)

: Key concerns: Reducing their stress levels and work hours,
allowing more flexible scheduling and phased retire-
ment options, encouraging them to delegate and em-
power younger generations, keeping them involved with
younger workers on project teams and task forces, con-
tinuing to keep them challenged with tasks and projects
where they can have an impact and leave a meaningful
legacy, and challenging them to continue to learn and
find opportunities for career renewal.