Carrots for the Millennials
讓Y世代嘗到甜頭
Host:Whyinan environment like ours, where there’s high unemployment, do these kids get to call the shots?
Nadira Hira (Journalist, Millennial): Well, you know, it’s interesting. I think when we look at recessions traditionally, it is the time at which you can make the most risky decision and take the least 1)flak for that. So I think it’s freed us, as millennials, to kind of do things that people don’t expect, because, yeah, my degree cost $200,000, but everybody’s unemployed, so if I want to go start a food truck in Manhattan, who’s to say that’s a bad idea? And, by the way, our value systems are different. We’ve seen our parents commit so much time and energy and money to creating a life for us, and yet we don’t necessarily see the…the…the payoffs of that. We want to create some balance.
Marian Salzman (American Advertising and PR Executive): The other thing, is, too, in the corporate world, these are the most inexpensive employees we have, so we’re going to be prepared to take the greatest risk with them. And they’re in the best position to change us, change our values, change how we work, even what time we work. And they’ve forced us to do that, because you, you’ve lost one too many…
Host: …because, when you say “they forced us to do that,” because you need them to come work for you, or you need…
Marian: They are…
Host: …their energy…
Marian: ….they are…
Host: …or creativity?

Marian: They are the most skilled inexpensive brain trust…
Host: Got it. So that’s your trade-off.
Marian: That’s right.
Host: Your trade-off is, we want these highly-skilled, well-educated, creative, cheap employees, …
Marian: Inexpensive.
Host: …for now…
Marian: Inexpensive.
Host: …inexpensive, for now, and, in order to get them, it’s kind of like how Google needs to create a remarkable environment to work in order to get the best engineers. That’s your trade-off: you’re giving them something.
Marian: Yes, absolutely! And furthermore, we also know that, because we’re not paying them a lot, they’ll churn through our employment or anybody else’s employment, so we need to keep giving them that carrot.
Nadira: 2)Retention is the key.
Marian: Right. It’s all about creating an environment where they actually want to be part of the environment.
主持人:失業率持續高企,為什么在這種情況下,這些孩子竟然可以說了算?
納迪拉·希拉(記者、Y世代):嗯,你知道嗎,這事很有意思。我想如果我們用傳統觀念看待經濟衰退,會發現這正好是你可以做一些高風險決定,卻聽
不到多少反對聲音的時候。所以我覺得,對于我們這些Y世代來說,這似乎給了我們自由,可以去做一些人們意想不到的事情,因為,確實,我花了二十萬才拿到這個學位,但大家都沒有工作,如果我打算在紐約曼哈頓開始做流動餐車的生意,誰能說這想法不好呢?還有,順便說一句,我們的價值觀并不相同。我們曾經看到父母辛辛苦苦,耗盡大量時間、精力和金錢讓我們過上好生活,可是,我們看到的是他們的努力未必總能得到回報。所以我們需要創造某種平衡。
瑪莉安·蘇茲曼(美國廣告及公關業高管):此外,在公司環境里,這些人是我們可以得到的最低價的員工了,所以我們也愿意在他們身上冒最大的風險。而且,在改變我們,改變我們的價值觀,改變我們的工作方式,甚至改變我們的工作時間方面,他們都顯得最有優勢。而且,他們已經迫使我們那么做了,因為我們已經失去了太多的……
主持人:……因為,你說“他們已經迫使我們那么做了”,那是因為你們需要他們為你們工作,或者說你們需要……
瑪莉安:他們是……
主持人:……他們身上的活力……
瑪莉安:……他們是……
主持人:……或者是他們的創造力?
瑪莉安:他們最訓練有素,而且是最低價的智力財富……