Which brings him to worker compensation: "The days of keeping top
employees around with a 5% raise or a promotion to the corner office are dead." Healy says companies should encourage entrepreneurship in the workplace, allowing those who come with ideas the right to
own, implement, develop and oversee their projects. He says that doing so would foster growth and boost employee retention, which has suffered mightily under the weight of Gen Y's urge to skip through
jobs and/or start their own businesses.
This column is idealistic, and smacks of that very entitlement/"special" feeling Healy tries to distance his generation from. However, if this is a collective consciousness entering our workforce, suddenly he's making several points that ought to be taken into consideration.