REBECCA JOHNSTON: Who Are the Baby Boomers?

REBECCA JOHNSTON: Who Are the Baby Boomers?

“People born in the 1950s have lived in seven decades, two centuries and two millenniums. We had the best music, fastest cars, drive-in theaters, soda fountains and happy days. And we are not even that old yet, we’re just that…

Toby Fowlston works with people of different ages, from 17-year-olds to people over 69. For the CEO of Robert Walters this is new – and complex – because it is the first time that up to five generations live together in the workplace: the silent generation, the baby boomers, the X generation, the millennials and the centennials. This represents a great breadth of experience for companies, but it also raises the need to devise effective strategie…