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The certainty of finding a job
Your interlocutor affirms that “young people have more tolerance to insecurity” (than their parents, for example) … I wonder to what extent the fact of being certain of finding a job immediately, if they abandon theirs , contributes to it. Previous generations have experienced severe recessions, high unemployment and interest rates …
Mireille Dubé, Quebec
The pressure of ambition
I am no longer young, at 53 years old. I have thrived on challenges all my life. A mechanical designer by training, I was an industrial representative for 30 years. It pays off, and offers are constantly pouring in. However, a former employer offered me to come back as technical (internal) support to young external salespeople who are gradually taking over from the many retirees. My income is 20% lower, but by subtracting my expenses (even if some were reimbursed), my net income is not much lower. And, probably more than ever since my debut, I really feel on my X. No more pressure related to sales targets, meetings across the country, endless canvassing, and I love my coaching role! I leave the pressure that comes with ambition to young people hungry for success.
Alan charles
Competition from abroad
Do they have a greater tolerance for insecurity? Not so sure about that. They (young people) jump from job to job because they know full well that there is a shortage of employees everywhere. Will this situation last forever? Most likely not. Someday the economy will tighten and they will be less carefree. Especially when they have a mortgage and at the price the real estate is given, mortgages leave no room for maneuver. A month goes by very quickly. Another factor that is not covered in this article: I have a friend in human resources at a major Canadian bank. They are losing more and more their employees, who are recruited by American financial institutions. You see, with teleworking, nothing prevents a company from another country from hiring, by teleworking, an employee who resides in a country where the value of money is less and the wages lower (not to mention that they do not have to pay the large health insurance premiums, the employee being covered by the Quebec health insurance plan). Large industries (which are very expensive to relocate) have left the countries of the North to settle in countries where labor is cheaper. Do you think that when it comes to just an internet line, there won’t be massive job losses here? And if you think it won’t be possible because people elsewhere are less educated, you are probably a racist. Everything can be learned. Here or somewhere else. Take off your rose-colored glasses.
Pierre Lavigne
Social evolution
This phenomenon, accelerated by the pandemic, is also a factor of change in other spheres of activity. We only have to think of the world of education, for example, which has to deal with millennials now and which has had to adapt to generations XY, etc. These better informed and more educated generations have demands and demands that were not possible for the boomers, in all areas, be they economic, spiritual, family, political, communications, etc. The leaders, including the elected politicians, must take into account the manifestations of this social evolution which we owe to the Paul Gérin-Lajoie of this world and whose vision of a better world is in the process of being updated.
Gaston M. Côté
What has changed
I am a new retiree and I had the chance to rub shoulders with young and old during my career. In my opinion, the profile of the worker has changed little over the past 35 years: there are good and less good in each generation. Committed employees working as a team, mobilized by the objectives, change agents wanting to improve things from all points of view (health / safety, quality, productivity, profitability). And at the other extreme, workers always on the lookout for the slightest effort, constant criticism of their work, colleagues and bosses, who managed to keep their jobs by slipping through the cracks or simply because of the presence of bad managers.
What has changed over time is the labor shortage that allows today’s workers to negotiate better conditions without having to really perform, in addition to the advent of social media. in the performance of work. I would add to this a growing incompetence of managers who are so absorbed by their administrative tasks (and their own social networks), that they have forgotten their raison d’être, which is to take care of their staff and of their work environment, listening to them, so that employees perform up to expectations. Loyalty to the employer has also disappeared, a situation created by the employer by abandoning defined benefit pension plans in addition to reducing its investments to develop its staff (their potential for advancement) and improve the work environment.
Real Bilodeau