Next Avenue's Gig Economy: Better for
Boomers Than Millennials covers the growing trend of retirement age Americans choosing to work in the gig economy.
Not exact matches
However, our study found that Baby
Boomers (age 53 - 70) make up 24 percent of the on - demand workforce, while GenX's (age 35 - 52) actually make up a greater percentage (41 percent)
than Millennials aged 18 - 34 (35 percent).
«Plus, Baby
Boomers have a higher net worth
than previous generations so it's easier for Gen - Xers and
millennials to borrow from them.
Rather
than go stale, A&W has in recent years targeted
millennial consumers instead of its traditional Baby
Boomer crowd, undertaken an ambitious urban expansion and noisily advertised its efforts to improve food quality.
But even providing good jobs for all these potential workers wouldn't solve the labour market's problems, because the workforce is shrinking: the number of
millennials poised to enter the labour pool is lower
than the number of baby
boomers set to retire.
The
Millennial generation has an entirely different consideration set for motivation, and given that they already comprise more of the workforce
than GenXers and Baby
Boomers, we need to invest time, money, and energy into creating workplaces that
Millennial employees will love.
Millennial small business owners have more confidence in their retirement savings than baby boomers, according to our survey, possibly because millennial owners started their business at a younger age on average (26 vs. 43 years old), allowing more time for them to grow their businesses» profit margins and create comfortable retirem
Millennial small business owners have more confidence in their retirement savings
than baby
boomers, according to our survey, possibly because
millennial owners started their business at a younger age on average (26 vs. 43 years old), allowing more time for them to grow their businesses» profit margins and create comfortable retirem
millennial owners started their business at a younger age on average (26 vs. 43 years old), allowing more time for them to grow their businesses» profit margins and create comfortable retirement plans.
Millennials appear to be more sensible with their financial planning
than baby
boomers and Generation X.
And
millennials feel significantly more intimidated
than Baby
Boomers or those in Generation X, it says.
It has enabled
millennial investors to begin saving for retirement far earlier
than their baby
boomer parents did.
Millennials are 19 percent more likely
than their baby
boomer peers to use productivity apps.
According to the survey, 56 percent of
millennials believe CEOs have a greater responsibility today
than in years past to speak up about social issues, compared to just 28 percent of generation X and baby
boomers.
Millennials have a much different worldview
than baby
boomers, and oldschool ways simply don't work.
A new study finds that
millennials are more likely
than baby
boomers to give based on their emotions rather
than a strategic plan.
Loneliness seems to lessen with age:
Millennials (adults ages 23 to 37, according to the study) are not quite as lonely as Gen Z, but lonelier
than Baby
Boomers (ages 52 to 71).
In fact,
boomers are more likely
than millennials to visit consumer websites and use them as primary sources for shopping research.
For example, of the
millennial respondents, 45 percent say they chose a more expensive home
than they'd planned, compared to 30 percent of «Generation Xers» — those born from the early 1960s to late 1970s — and 19 percent of baby
boomers.
In fact, US
millennial parents are on track to be richer in retirement
than the typical Gen - Xer or baby
boomer with kids.
Researchers have found that more
than half of
Millennials prefer to consume email via a mobile device, compared with only 21 percent of Baby
Boomers.
Unlike other generations, we found that
Millennials tend to have less positive work experiences as they move up the ladder in an organization;
Millennials in executive leadership roles not only reported lower scores
than their
Boomer and Gen X executive counterparts, they also fared worse
than Millennials in front - line manager and department leader roles.
In a generational research report that came out recently, it was shown that
Millennials had lower chances to contribute to their 401 (k) plans,
than their Baby
Boomer and Generation X peers.
Millennials are more likely
than Gen X'ers and Baby
Boomers to say it matters if American businesses give back to society, according to a new poll conducted by Morning Consult for Fortune.
As far as investing is concerned, UBS found in a study that
Millennials were more likely to self - identify as conservative investors
than their Baby
Boomer or Generation X peers, even though they had the longest time window to retirement.
Fidelity Charitable, the nonprofit arm of Fidelity Investments that runs its donor - advised fund program, found that 71 percent of
millennial women give to charity based on the moment while less
than half of baby
boomer women do so.
Millennials tend to give to charitable causes in the spur of the moment and based on emotion more
than baby
boomers do, a new study has found.
Seventy - one percent of
millennial women give to charity based on the moment, while less
than half of baby
boomer women do so, according to a new study from Fidelity Charitable.
More
than 30 percent of American workers today are part of the
Millennial generation, making them the largest shareholder of the American work force, above both Gen - X and Baby
Boomers.
Indeed,
Millennial women are twice as likely to be active investors and twice as likely to take on high - risk investments
than Baby
Boomer women.
According to the survey, of employed parents currently contributing to retirement funds, 38 percent of
millennials contribute more
than 15 percent of their annual income, compared with 24 percent of Gen X and 23 percent of
Boomers.
Baby
boomers have most of the wealth and the housing, so «
millennials are doing less well
than their parents at the same age.»
Millennials are around 2.5 times more likely
than boomers to at least occasionally share a social - media link that references a brand or product and to follow brands on Twitter.
Needing and wanting to work:
Millennials report needing and wanting to work vs. just needing to work at a higher rate (71 percent)
than generation x (65 percent) and baby
boomers (66 percent).
Access to flexible work options:
Millennials report having to stay at the office to do work at a much higher rate (34 percent)
than generation x (26 percent) and baby
boomers (19 percent).
And, while a recent study found that 63 percent of
millennials prefer eco-friendly product packaging, more
than half of both Gen - Xers and baby
boomers have the same preference.
The Internet is a more influential source of consumer information for U.S.
Millennials than for older generations: 50 percent of younger
Millennials and 47 percent of older
Millennials said that they trust retailer websites, compared with 33 percent and 36 percent of Gen - Xers and
boomers, respectively.
Baby
boomers typically have more wealth
than millennials and younger generations, so they likely have a higher volume of AUM.
Aside from paying for basic necessities,
millennials cited travel as their number two reason for seeking flexible work options, much higher
than generation x or baby
boomer respondents.
FlexJobs Survey:
Millennials More Interested in Travel, Work Flexibility
Than Gen X, Baby
Boomers
Millennials were also twice as likely
than Baby
Boomers to buy clothing for their pets, a phenomenon Richter chalks up to the prevalence of social media.
PayScale and
Millennial Branding Release Third Annual Study on the State of Gen Y, Gen X, and Baby
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Remember that baby
boomers are predisposed to being more reluctant
than your
millennial clients when discussing international diversification opportunities.
Baby
boomers may potentially be more susceptible to these behavioral finance precepts
than millennials and Generation X.
From a generational standpoint, baby
boomers are more likely to be affected by the home bias
than millennials.
Millennials have more debt and less income
than Gen X or baby
boomers on average.
Studies have shown many young adults in their 20s and early 30s are better at tracking expenses and sticking to a budget
than baby
boomers, who are generally the parents of
millennials.
This article was adapted from the Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Client Conversations report «Demographic Destiny: Are
Millennials Spending Differently
Than Baby
Boomers?»
If your
millennial is walking around with more technology in his backpack
than he has at the office, then perhaps he has a legitimate point that
boomers and Gen - Xers should consider.
Clark's script blamed the housing crisis on a shortage of supply, growing population and demand, consumers with double the borrowing power they had in 2000, and
millennials «who are greater in number
than even the baby
boomers — and who are now entering the housing market for the first time — and they aren't happy.»
Home prices have increased 250 % since 1980 and
Millennials under 25 are spending 7.7 % more of their wallet on housing
than the
Boomer generation did at that age.3 As a result, the number of non-married people under 35 sharing a home or apartment has grown.
Millennial employees were 30 % more likely
than Gen - Xers and 60 % more likely
than baby
boomers to stop purchasing or promoting an employer's products due to a poor employee experience.