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workplace and job design. More  their employers have been neglected.
       than ever, businesses must establish  Employers are  trying their  best
       their complete rewards philosophy  to meet this gap and have started
       and have a thorough grasp of what  offering different perks to different
       each employee group expects from  generations. An organization’s
       their Total Rewards programme.  workforce generation mix is a
       Total  Rewards    include   hard   crucial element in determining
       compensation  (such  as  guaranteed  remuneration   and     benefits
       cash, incentives, bonuses, equity,  packages. It is critical to stress that
       and so on); people processes and  benefits  should  not  be  tailored  to
       programmes (such as health and  specific  employees  depending  on
       wellness,  flexi  work,  learning  their age, since this would constitute
       and development, career, and  age-based discrimination. Tiered
       performance management, among  total       compensation     packages
       others);  and  HR  rules  (like  leave,  based  on  employee  grades  are  the
       benefits,  promotion,  succession  best approach to conduct these
       planning etc.). Concerns about the  intergenerational studies while
       cost of living may be a symptom  remaining consistent with equal
       of the times, given high levels  employee opportunity regulations.
       of  inflation,  but  they  also  speak  Similarly, the HR recruiting
       to issues that these generations  function must carefully evaluate
       have been expressing  for years:  the multi-generational  component
       they  do  not  feel  financially  secure  of the workforce, and the next
       personally, and they are deeply  part of this essay series will address
       concerned about wealth inequality  how  generations  effect  manpower
       on a broader societal level.       recruitment and selection.
        This study bought forward the      The study  threw light on  the
       needs of the millennials at the  ways  in which the  employers
       workplace,  which  aren’t  addressed  have been rolling out rewards
       to the fullest at times. Millennials  which have been breaking down
       are looking for some contemporary  the walls of workplace cultures.
       benefits  that  their  employers  have  Attracting  the  employees  of
       to  offer.  This  generation  feels  that  different generations with different
       they should feel empowered by the  compensations    schemes    have
       kind of compensation and benefits  become one of the crucial aspects
       schemes their companies provide  of the companies. On the one
       them. The millennials feel that their  hand,  flexibility,  transparency  and
       demands have been neglected by  a better work-life-balance is what

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