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Chapter One - To Know the Present
Through the Past
the era of the internet, broadband, and social networks
with massive information readily available. They prefer to
communicate via mobile phone messages, face-to-face
communications are not as common.
However, the millennial generation also experienced the
global economic downturn. In Hong Kong, the financial
turmoil in 1997, the SARS attack in 2003, and the global
financial tsunami in 2008 have had a great impact on them.
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actual income of full-time employees aged 39 or below
only increased by 10-12% from 2013 to 2017, while
inflation was higher during the period; not to mention the
surging property prices.
Millennials experienced the economic downturn and
learnt how to compromise, some of them are ambitious,
they want to be promoted quickly within an organisation.
On the other hand, most of them believe that a work-life
balance is as important as financial rewards. The millennial
generation's demand for quality of life often contradicts the
