Conflict management | Are Millennials the most challenging generation to work with?

Millennials - or those born between 1980 and 1999 - are often blamed in the media for disrupting societal norms.

Recent headlines have accused this generation of ‘killing’ everything from golf to paper napkins, and their trend towards having less (or even no) children is greatly worrying economists.

However, research from Robert Walters may have found one thing that Millennials are creating more of - intergenerational conflict in the workplace.

The researchers dubbed the age group the most ‘impatient generation’ in the workplace, with over 90% wanting ‘rapid career progression.’