Millennials define the workplace diversity phenomenon in a surprisingly novel way. Moreover, it influences their sense of teamwork and their productivity. That’s not something to be ignored, to be sure. By 2025 millennials will cover nearly 3 quarters of all jobs.
Workplace diversity has long been an issue. A century ago it sounded like the recipe for a disaster. In the meantime, it has become the recipe for success. What changed? Two world wars, globalization, social movements and emancipation. We live in a very different world today. And change is accelerating, without a doubt.
Yet a lot of “yesterday” drags into “today.” And tomorrow seems as far as it is close. Soon we’ll have a colony on Mars. And 3D printing construction robots will build structures on the Moon. But somehow women make up just 15 percent of NASA’s teams