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Workforce Generations

“Workforce generations” represent generic groupings of age cohorts in the workplace. With longer careers and longer life spans, multiple generations co-exist in the workforce. The generations that are primarily active in the current workforce are listed below:

  • Baby Boomers: born between 1946 and 1964 

  • Generation X: born between 1965 and 1981

  • Generation Y (Millennials): born between 1982 and 1997

  • Generation Z: born between 1997 and today

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