Millennial Burn-Out

This incisive essay calls into question the myth of employee generations and the obsession with classifying individuals according to their year of birth. From the baby boomers to Generations X, Y, Z, and Alpha, Vincent Cocquebert analyzes how generational labels, widely relayed by media discourse, rest on shortcuts that are most often reductive. Through a rigorous sociological and historical approach, he demonstrates how these categorizations obscure the uniqueness of individual trajectories and distort our understanding of professional and social dynamics. Without offering any management prescriptions, this book first and foremost provides a critical perspective on generational tropes.