By Karen Sands
With more people living longer, active lives, we are at a historical crossroads in which the demographics of workplace environments are shifting. It’s time to drop the narrative that persists about Boomers vs. Millennials battling over jobs, being on different planes or coming from opposing perspectives. It’s time to undergo the complex transformations necessary to modify our connections, attitudes, and work environments to create, as in our best relationships, “great chemistry.”
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No transformation is inevitable, however. It is up to all of us, together, to shape the changing workplace for a future which will benefit workers of all ages (hence society as a whole), one, as I discuss in my book, The Ageless Way, that is focused on the “Triple Bottom Line” of people, planet, and profits.
I believe multigenerational age-friendly trends are worth developing and will result when we all work together based on common interests and visions for the future. A future that has a place for all of us is one with more genuine connections and fewer artificial barriers, such as those based on age, gender, race, and class stereotypes.
Civilization is a travel from generation to generation. As in a orchestra, all instruments are needed. You can pass information from one to another but you need also to pass experience and point of view from generation to generation, up and down, down and up.