Construction Employers must Adapt to Millennial Workforce Needs
Published by Don Wall , constructconnect.com
True to the stereotypes, workplace millennials want to be respected, included in decisions, sit in on important meetings before they’ve earned it and need to think their work is relevant, says David Coletto, Abacus Data CEO.
And like it or not, Coletto said, it’s a demographic inevitability that the millennial cohort will be the main source of employees for the construction sector for the foreseeable future and it’s the constructors who will have to bend to meet the millennials’ needs, not the other way around.
“Every sector is having this problem,” said Coletto in an interview after his evening keynote address at a Canadian Construction Association Leading the Evolution Summit on April 25.
“But given that millennials are going to be the majority of working-age people I don’t think you cannot figure it out."