[ihsw]

The article implies that Baby Boomers are more virtuous, however I'd contend that those same people wouldn't have been so virtuous when they were 18-24.

Loyalty from the 18-24 age-group is difficult to come by, regardless of which generation they belong to.

Now, the article fails to mention who the subjects of the study were betraying -- their Millennial peers, or non-Millennial ones? I would hazard to guess that most Millennials would happily betray their Boomer co-workers, perhaps even gleefully (schadenfreude?) -- and vice versa.

The question is open to interpretation even more -- Millennials count potentially everybody as a "workplace friend" (due to a far larger pool of competition), whereas Baby Boomers generally have only themselves as workplace friends.

[wldcordeiro]

That's a really good point that wasn't at all mentioned. It could also be that the older people are less likely to admit that they threw someone under the bus and consider it "just business."

[pavel_lishin]

It's possible that in the economic climate they grew up in, it was simply never necessary.

The citizens of Leningrad in 1937 would surely not resort to cannibalism, but ask that question again in 1943...

[koko775]

This might out me as overly cynical, but I'd go a step further and say that baby boomers don't have to throw coworkers under the bus because our younger generation got collectively thrown under the bus by our/their politicians already.

[nextweek2]

That's a little harsh. The job market has changed, there is less of a hierarchy for people to climb. Thanks to technology. There is more competition for the better jobs thanks to globalisation.

These are two things which are not the fault of boomers.

Millennieals need to innovative out of their situation, change the game. Something like their own political party.