According to a recent study from Comparably, which surveyed more 46,000 employees, millennials care more about work life balance than they do about career advancement. Granted, they’re quite close, at 34 percent for work life balance and 32 percent for career advancement, but still, these numbers reflect a shifting trend in the professional world: work life balance is very important to millennial workers. When you break down the generation even more, you notice a trend, mainly that the younger the millennial, the more concerned they are with career advancement. However, as the overall trend leans towards work life balance as the most important factor in choosing a career, it’s important to remember that 18 to 25 year olds are likely still in the beginning stages of their career, sometimes making less than minimum wage. As for the other factors that attract millennial employees, a happy culture and environment came in third across the board, further cementing it as an important aspect of successful businesses. Healthcare benefits and company mission tied for last in every age group, showing that big picture aspirations don’t matter unless the essentials are there first. For more information about what millennials want in the workforce, take a look at the full study here and get a better idea of which factors don’t matter in the graph below:
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