generational shift
Age-group value change
A generational shift is a significant change in attitudes, values, or behaviors that occurs as one generation replaces another in positions of influence.
The term appears in discussions of cultural evolution: The generational shift toward remote work accelerated after the pandemic.
Unlike gradual change, a generational shift implies a recognizable break—younger cohorts holding fundamentally different assumptions than their predecessors.
- baby boomers1946-1964 birth cohort
- millennialsThose born 1981-1996
- boomersPostwar demographic cohort
- Gen XPost-boomer demographic cohort
- digital nativesThose raised with technology
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- aging workforceaging workforce, older workers, mature workers, baby boomers, senior staff
- demographicspopulation density, population growth, age distribution, population, gender ratio
- immigrationimmigrant, immigrants, visa, refugee, citizenship
- migrationmigration, immigrants, refugees, immigration, emigration
- cycleslife cycle, cycle, circle of life, cycles, period
- shakeupsshakeup, shake-up, reshuffle, reorganization, restructuring
generational shifttradition
Custom passed through generations
status quo · changelessness · permanence · conservatism · timelessness
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