Embrace diversity | Multigenerational teams; a solution to staff retention?

The post-Brexit, post-lockdown recruitment and retention experiences of many businesses have been tough.

The highest number of job vacancies in a generation coupled with ‘the great resignation’ and a remote working ‘hangover’ add up to a serious challenge for HR. Simply there just aren’t enough people to go around. More specifically, there aren’t enough of the right people to fill the hundreds of thousands of current vacancies. And when businesses have good people, there’s the issue of hanging on to them. The answer could be in investing in a multi-generational team.

Some workplaces now have four different generations working alongside each other with an age span of up to 50 years. Members of these generations share traits, views and certain characteristics – and sometimes they can be at odds with other generations.

What does this mix of generations mean for workplace teams and how can it help solve the staff retention challenge?