Generations in the workforce the recession, there has been a significant shift in Gen X moving to management roles. Perceptions of Gen X managers are high according to an online survey published by Ernst & Young. Out of 200 people, 57% of respondents believed that Gen X displayed each of the survey’s positive characteristics and were thought to be best at managing through difficult times. The Y generation, also referred to as "Millennials" were born around 1980 to 2000. They have been described in a report published by United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund as the next big generation after the Baby Boomers. They
Baby boomers of 1943-1960) reached a common retirement age in the United States: 66 years. An indication of the importance put on the impact of the boomer was the selection by "TIME" magazine of the Baby Boom Generation as its 1966 "Man of the Year." As Claire Raines points out in "Beyond Generation X", "never before in history had youth been so idealized as they were at this moment." When Generation X came along it had much to live up to according to Raines. Boomers are often associated with the counterculture of the 1960s, the civil rights movement, and the "second-wave" feminist