Feature
parents who need their help and Generation Y (1980s – 2000s) people is that they will feel
their adult children. Gen Y or the “Millennial disenfranchised leading to a lack
generation” are living in an age of of focus, one of the main reasons
Xers (1960s – 1980s) unprecedented diversity and that young people move jobs so
Generation Xers grew up as exposure to other cultures. They often. But there is a deeper
children of divorce, experiencing are growing up quickly – too concern that employers should
an era of crises in which it was quickly, some would say. They’re have. Disenfranchised employees
clear the adults didn’t know what confident to the point of are much more likely to
was going on. Today, they need arrogance, possibly because they’re contemplate committing fraud in
options and flexibility, they dislike the chief technology officers of the workplace.
close supervision, preferring their homes. They value A person’s generation may be a
freedom and an outputs-driven collaboration and speed, and want small piece of the puzzle in
workplace. They love change so ongoing innovation and personal profiling fraudsters in an individual,
much they actually need it. Xers challenge. With constant reports of but it is an important and
strive for balance in their lives: they global warming and other serious significant component in
work to have a life; they don’t live society-threatening issues, they are understanding the expectations
to work. They need a workplace growing up to be civic minded, that people have of the workplace.
that helps them develop as people, ethical consumers. And responding to those
rather than just as employees. We work in workplaces with expectations is vital to ensuring
They are pragmatic, unfazed by more diversity than at any other that people are happy and engaged
authority. This may make them the time in history, and we need to and are passionate about giving
generation most inclined to find ways to bridge the differences their best for their employer. There
consider fraudulent activity in in worldview we encounter on an are many ways to protect oneself
order to survive the economic ongoing basis. The danger of not against fraud – generations may be
downturn. connecting more effectively with one of the easiest. RF
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