By Brittany R. Ballenstedt
Despite some well-documented generational differences, baby boomers and millennials essentially need the same thing from their federal jobs: strong leadership and flexible pay.
To combat the retirement wave now cresting in agencies and retain a diverse workforce, the federal government needs to focus on leadership, pay and hiring reform, panelists said Tuesday at a breakfast sponsored by Government Executive.
Chris Myers Asch, one of the architects behind a proposal to create a public service academy, said agency human resource leaders should not consider the wants of generations X and Y unrealistic. "We treat the millennials and Gen-Xers as these alien breeds coming in," he said. "If [other generations] think about what they want now and what they wanted when they started working, it's the same kinds of things. The only difference is we have the technology now to do those things."
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