Summary Of The Deloitte Millennial Survey

According to the Deloitte Millennial Survey of 2016, “those likely to remain [the] longest [at their company] share their organization's values, and are more satisfied with its sense of purpose and support of professional development.” The results just come to show that my generation, the Millennials, want to work for a company who has a purpose. Money is out, purpose is in. If you look at Figure 3, you can notice just how relevant meaning and purpose are to the Millennial generation. These are results from the Deloitte Millennial Survey of 2016 when asked what are important factors when considering employment (besides money). Not only do Millennials want a sense of purpose for themselves, but they want to work on projects that have a sense of meaning. Daniel Pink, author of best-selling books and a notable speaker for TED, stated that there are three things that lead to better performance at work and create personal satisfaction; autonomy, mastery and purpose. Mr. Pink states that you are seeing more and more of this purpose motive throughout organizations.

He states that it is “partly because it makes coming to work better and partly because that’s the way to get better talent [for a company].” At Texas Instruments, they have an extremely powerful mission statement that complements purpose; “We're changing the world, one chip at a time…our analog and embedded processing products power electronics across every industry and help to make the world smarter, safer, greener, healthier and more fun.” Does this make me want to go to work for them every