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Young workers expect their older colleagues to get out of the way

  • Written by Michael North, Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations, Stern School of Business , New York University
imageYoung people expect that older adults actively make way for younger generations, such as by retiring.Neil Moralee/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

There are many names for the narratives pitting the older generation against the younger: Gen-Y versus Baby Boomers, “Generation Me” versus “Generation We,” and unfortunately my research demons...

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