Generation Y

I read the post on the Age about Gen Y and the work force Click here to read it all.

 

Futurists and consultants are predicting massive changes ahead with the wave of 20-somethings coming into the workforce.
When today's 21-year-old was starting school, Tim Berners-Lee was writing a program called the World Wide Web. Home computers had been on sale for about 15 years.
Sharing, compiling random bits of information into new patterns, and multi-tasking are becoming the new patterns of work. The impact is expected to challenge the accepted ways of doing things in the business world. It also raises some important questions for employers wanting to attract, and keep, the best.

 

How can we say what a generation is until they have stepped out into the real world. When they have fended for themselves, when they have lived and died by their decisions. Then and only then will we see what they are actually like! What we see in them now is only what they are now. What will they be like when faced with employing some one or laying them off. How will they react to responsibility when it is asked of them? How will they handle it when they have to let others have a go and take the lead? How will they follow a leader when that is their position. it is just theory until they have actually done it. How they do it the next time will tell what sort of generation they are.