MANAGER MINT MAGAZINE Issue 03 | Page 66

The Millennials and Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Millennials take a lot of grief for being unmotivated and full of themselves. They also catch hell for returning back home after college versus taking the more traditional route of getting a job, getting married, buying a house, and having children.

There’s been a lot of back and forth on why this is that basically falls into two distinct camps: economic reasons and character reasons.