<P> Generation Flux is a neologism and psychographic (not demographic) designation coined by Fast Company for American employees who need to make several changes in career throughout their working lives due to the chaotic nature of the job market following the Great Recession . Societal change has been accelerated by the use of social media, smartphones, mobile computing, and other new technologies . Those in "Generation Flux" have birth - years in the ranges of both Generation X and Millennials . "Generation Sell" was used by author William Deresiewicz to describe Millennials' interest in small businesses . </P> <P> Millennials are expected to make up approximately half of the U.S. workforce by 2020 . Millennials are the most highly educated and culturally diverse group of all generations, and have been regarded as hard to please when it comes to employers . To address these new challenges, many large firms are currently studying the social and behavioral patterns of Millennials and are trying to devise programs that decrease intergenerational estrangement, and increase relationships of reciprocal understanding between older employees and Millennials . The UK's Institute of Leadership & Management researched the gap in understanding between Millennial recruits and their managers in collaboration with Ashridge Business School . The findings included high expectations for advancement, salary and for a coaching relationship with their manager, and suggested that organizations will need to adapt to accommodate and make the best use of Millennials . In an example of a company trying to do just this, Goldman Sachs conducted training programs that used actors to portray Millennials who assertively sought more feedback, responsibility, and involvement in decision making . After the performance, employees discussed and debated the generational differences they saw played out . </P> <P> Millennials have benefited the least from the economic recovery following the Great Recession, as average incomes for this generation have fallen at twice the general adult population's total drop and are likely to be on a path toward lower incomes for at least another decade . A Bloomberg L.P. article wrote that "Three and a half years after the worst recession since the Great Depression, the earnings and employment gap between those in the under - 35 population and their parents and grandparents threatens to unravel the American dream of each generation doing better than the last . The nation's younger workers have benefited least from an economic recovery that has been the most uneven in recent history ." </P> <P> In 2014, Millennials were entering an increasingly multi-generational workplace . Even though research has shown that Millennials are joining the workforce during a tough economic time they still have remained optimistic, as shown when about nine out of ten Millennials surveyed by the Pew Research Center said that they currently have enough money or that they will eventually reach their long - term financial goals . </P>

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