Professor Jean Pralong from the Rouen Business School surveyed over 400 workers from similar backgrounds but of various ages and found that the X and Y Generations think among similar lines
The so-called Generation Y is estimated as being born between the late 1970s and mid 90s and is characterised as being cynical, self-centred and technologically savvy in the workplace, but this anecdotal theory was not verified by the study.
"For economists, a generation is constituted of people who confront the same conditions at work," Pralong said. "The study showed that no difference exists between 25-year-olds and 45-year-olds at work. This shows that on a scientific level, Generation Y doesn’t exist," Pralong said.
The Rouen study interviewed three groups, Masters Level students of Generation Y, salaried workers of Generation Y in their first jobs, and salaried workers from Generation X, and was published in Revue Internationale de Psychoscoiologie in 2010.
