Over the past year, I’ve had numerous conversations with clients about how to hire, inspire and retain their millennial employees. It seems many leaders I work are struggling to find the “right” answer, but there are as many answers to this question as there are industries, offices and jobs.
I was recently introduced to the idea of leveraging workplace design as a tool for retaining and recruiting millennial employees when my firm, Baker Tilly, remodeled our offices. Prior to the remodel, employees were surveyed on issues such as privacy, flexibility within a work station, need for social interaction and variety of work spaces. Synthesizing this information — from more than 200 employees — into viable recommendations would be a big job.