Employees of Generation Y – Their Profile Based on Research Results

By 2025, representatives of Generation Y, the so-called Millennials, will have constituted 75% of the total workforce in the world. Numerous studies pertaining to the generation’s characteristics paint a picture of an exceptional generation, one which is troublesome to HR managers. Due to the emergence of several studies associated with Generation Y employees, frequently journalistic in nature, an attempt at the characterisation of the generation’s competence potential was made. The current paper presents results of self-reports of 634 Polish Generation Y employees.