A point of concern but still remains that there aren’t enough jobs to go around. The sheer number of young people has yet to become an asset: only 2.3% of the Indian workforce has had formal training. Secure work is hard to find in India. Entire districts of one or two cities are devoted to call-centre scams. The work has its attractions – one of them is outsmarting foreigners who believe they are smarter, as well as richer, than you are – but the main driver of recruitment is push rather than pull.
Today, although baby boomers are the largest generation of active workers, research shows that boomers identify their strengths as organizational memory, optimism, and their willingness to work long hours. This generation grew up in organizations with large corporate hierarchies, rather than flat management structures and teamwork-based job roles. On the other hand, millennials have a drastically different outlook on what they expect from their employment experience. Millennials are well educated, skilled in technology, very self-confident, able to multi-task, and have plenty of energy. They have high expectations for themselves, as well as from the teams they work in teams, instead of individuals in it. Millennials seek challenges, yet work life balance is of utmost importance to them. They do, however, realize that their need for social interaction, immediate results in their work, and desire for speedy advancement may be seen as weaknesses by older colleagues.
While the Indian CEOs pooh-pooh the issue of work-life balance by saying we have to work 18 hours and build the nation, the expats find the lack of work-life balance in India quite appalling. Unlike the West, there's no distinction between work and life in India — they are fused. Expat CEOs believe spending long hours in the office equates with inefficiency. It's actually hard work done smartly that takes you the long way. At the end of the day, time management is important.
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