Whether you’re Team Millennial or not, one thing is for certain, millennials are here to stay in our workforce. The inevitability of each new generation becoming the majority in our workforce, and therefore becoming the most influential demographic group in the corporate world, has been one of the primary catalysts for change in the dynamic of workplace culture for some time now. The exponential growth in technology and its subsequent innovations, paired with the growing millennial influence, has put productivity in the workplace in jeopardy.
In startup and Silicon Valley culture, we can see a lot of new, nontraditional practices in workplace culture. In older, larger corporations, in which change is difficult, slow, and often discouraged, traditional practices still dominate. What if your company isn’t a startup or tech-based company that’s parallel to the Silicon Valley trajectory, but also isn’t a huge global corporation that’s been around for half a century? Balancing traditional and nontraditional practices in workplace culture becomes an issue that’s not only important, but crucial to employee productivity, and ultimately, your business’s success.