The way we’re working is changing, and as painful as the generation gap may feel, you can engage your young workers so that their differences are an asset. Here are four simple guidelines for how to engage your young workers to earn their trust, loyalty, and make your business better in the process.

1. Ask them what they think.

Many of the claims about Generation Y, the Millennials, are true. I can say that because I am one. What is NOT true are the assumptions and reasoning behind the claims. These claims are made with envy and resentment, in effect an expression by older generations of the mournful loss of an old paradigm that is being exposed and expelled from the workplace by the Millennials.