Rapid changes in business, society, finance, and technology create knock-on tensions within the workplace, and employees of various age groups respond to the disruptions differently. When that happens, new study data suggests employers should consider turning to Gen X workers — now roughly aged 45 to 60 years old — as a key generational bridge between younger and older staff cohorts whose reaction to and perception of change often considerably varies.
New research highlights the importance of the role Gen Xers can play in smoothing over intergenerational workplace differences in behavioral norms and outlooks that can divide older baby boomer colleagues from their younger millennial and Gen Zer workmates. As part of its continued research into the lives and wellness of older workers, the Mather Institute questioned 1,000 people from each of today’s four main workplace age cohorts. Responses given reflected considerably divergent habits and views between those groups on using new tech, wellbeing priorities, and loyalty to employers.
