New breed of employees

A friend and I were just discussing about the new breed of employees entering the workforce, and guess what? JapanToday ran a similar article discussing this new breed of people. While the people mentioned in the article are Japanese, Singapore faces a similar situation, with the new breed of employees generally having a different attitude towards work. Maybe it is because of the similar shift in our education system?

I guess one difference is the priority between work and self. People used to be more willing to sacrifice self in order to get work done. With the new breed of employees, the priority is more on the self than on work (that doesn't mean they don't work or make sacrifices for work, just less willing to). Whether this is a change for the better or not, no one can judge, since we all have different values and see things through different perspectives/filters. What hasn't changed, of course, is that as long as you keep an employee happy, he or she will not think of leaving.