Generation-Y Employees

Various research agencies have given their own lower and upper age limits for this generation of employees. Campton & Hodge states that this generation encompasses all those professional who were born between 1980 and 1999, however The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Association Office of Diversity keeps it between 1980 and 2002.

Other authorities like Kersten & Martin have broadly placed this generation, known as the Generation-Y as individuals born between 1978 and 2002, and it’s this classification that has found maximum acceptance.

This generation has not yet been given a permanent label and the probable options are −

• Millennials
• Nexters
• Generation www
• N-Gens
• Digital generation
• Generation E
• Echo Boomers
• Net Generation

The members of this generation have labeled themselves as Non-Nuclear Family generation, the Nothing-Is-Sacred Generation, the Wannabees, the Feel-Good Generation, Cyber kids, the Door-Die Generation, and the Searching-for-an-Identity Generation.

This generation is quite comfortable with the usage of technology, which may be due to their upbringing in the shadow of parental excesses, computers and dramatic technological advances.