CHAPTER 5
It’s Not Disloyal, It’s Seeking Purpose
Show me disloyalty and I’ll show you detachment.
—Anonymous
One of the most notorious claims about millennials is their willingness to job-hop. For the last 10 years, we have been bombarded with statistics such as millennials will hold 10 jobs by the age of 32 and six careers throughout their lifetime. Looking at these statistics, it seems easy to conclude that millennials as a generation are disloyal to companies when previous generations were committed to spending a lifetime at the same job.
Yet, what is loyalty? Loyalty is typically defined as having a sense of duty, devotion, or strong support for an individual, cause, family, faith, or broader group. But loyalty is not given for nothing in ...
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