Millennials Say They Ll Relocate For Work Life Flexibility Summary

The article titled, “Millennials Say They’ll Relocate for Work-Life Flexibility” by Nanette Fondas goes into depth about a recent global survey that was conducted by EY. One of the main findings in the survey was the facts that Millennials want to have flexible working arrangements. It talks about how they are worried that other will perceive them as less committed (“flexibility stigma”). The article discusses how it’s the “perfect storm” for millennials, when they reach management is about the same time they start to have children, thus creating more responsibility both at work as well as at home. Later in the article it states that over a third of the people interviewed said they would move to another country and talked about how bad that could be for US companies. The article also goes into a short detail of the idea of results-only organization as a way to allow flexibility. Finally, the article wraps up by talking about how Millennials need to know that they can have their family life as well as their work life and be successful at both. The main purpose of this article is to show everyone that for the most part Millennials value flexibility in the

First, it relates to two of the four goals of HRM, attract employees and retain employees. If you’re not going to give them what they are looking for then you’ll never get them into the door and if you do have them in house you won’t be able to retain them if you don’t allow for the flexibility they are seeking. Also it relates the whole idea of careers and the idea that everybody has a different sense of what they want, and in the article it talks about how a lot of Millennials want the flexibility and are willing to move in order to get what they want out of their career. Lastly, it relates to the benefits section. Having a flexible schedule would be a definite benefit that would attract several new employees to an organization if