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Actually I do employ somebody to "sweep the floors" fulltime. Some random service doesn;t take any amount of care of interest in the job. You are far better o

Actually I do employ somebody to "sweep the floors" fulltime. Some random service doesn;t take any amount of care of interest in the job. You are far better off to pay somebody to do it and be invested in the task with a sense of pride then to employ a random cleaning company and whatever worker they happen to send that week. What I do find is that employee's think hiring is like being on a talent show. Clearly you have never done any hiring. Once you get out of tech you'll be lucky if 50% of workers show up for work the day after they have been hired. Fully 10% of workers will be hired, you will arrange a day to start work and they won;t even show up. You'll never hear from them again. Companies can spend time training people over and over. Millenials expect to be promoted in 6 months and be constantly feted for their work. Hopefully one day you can own a company and spend your time training workers to have them leave when they become competent.

kasey_junk 13y ago
You are in a huge minority of companies that actually expect to hire someone to clean floors and move up. If it works for you (which it sounds like it doesn't) that's great, but it doesn't change the standard hiring practices in current businesses which is the opposite of that. I've never been responsible for hiring outside of the technology sector, that said, I've been responsible for hiring, and have hired across a variety of age groups and have noticed no trend among any of them for who works harder/more efficiently/etc. Employee retention is most certainly a hard job, but it isn't because of the age of my employees, it's because I strive to hire really good ones. For what it's worth, I put this question to my wife who hires in a non-tech small business setting, and she has also never experienced specific problems with millennials that don't exist in other age groups. Perhaps it is your hiring practices that are at issue not who you are hiring?

kasey_junk 13y ago

You are in a huge minority of companies that actually expect to hire someone to clean floors and move up. If it works for you (which it sounds like it doesn't) that's great, but it doesn't change the standard hiring practices in current businesses which is the opposite of that. I've never been responsible for hiring outside of the technology sector, that said, I've been responsible for hiring, and have hired across a variety of age groups and have noticed no trend among any of them for who works harder/more efficiently/etc. Employee retention is most certainly a hard job, but it isn't because of the age of my employees, it's because I strive to hire really good ones. For what it's worth, I put this question to my wife who hires in a non-tech small business setting, and she has also never experienced specific problems with millennials that don't exist in other age groups. Perhaps it is your hiring practices that are at issue not who you are hiring?