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What Is the Business World Doing to Support the Sandwich Generation?

Question: With so much focus lately on Millennial’s, I’m curious what employers are doing to support another group of employees — the Sandwich Generation? Answer: For employees in the Sandwich Generation who are caring not only for their own children, but also for their aging parents, they often will trudge along to care for the […]

Recruiting and Retaining Millennials

By Robin Throckmorton, MA, SPHR, SCP The Millennial generation now dominates our workforce as they have successfully surpassed the Baby Boomer generation.  And guess what, multiple studies show we can expect the Millennials to be 50% of the workforce by 2020 and 75% of the global workplace by 2030.  With Baby Boomers retiring and labor […]

Are You Struggling to Recruit Millennials?

By Avery Helwig, aPHR and Robin Throckmorton, MA, SPHR, SHRM-SCP Whether you like it or not, the Millennial generation has arrived; and amid the stereotypes, this is a generation that is determined to reach success.  While it may be hard to look past the labels that have been put on this young generation, we must […]

The Gen Y Recruitment Solution

Robin Throckmorton, M.A., SPHR The labor storm has officially hit land and we are all struggling to survive as the economy is picking up with full force. Businesses got a glimpse of the surge in 2005 but are beginning to see the real magnitude of the need for labor AND skills already in 2006. To […]

What has happened to the work ethic? Nothing?!

by Robin Throckmorton, MA, SPHR As an author and frequent speaker on the generations in the workplace, I’m often asked “what has happened to the work ethic of our workers?” Has work ethic really changed? Or, is it a matter of how we are getting work done that has actually changed? Radio Babies (Born 1930 […]