{"id":1523,"date":"2015-01-13T13:31:53","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T13:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stagingwww.zycus.com\/preparing-procurement-for-the-millennial-workforce"},"modified":"2023-10-18T16:52:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T16:52:34","slug":"preparing-procurement-for-the-millennial-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.zycus.com\/freshz\/blog\/procurement-technology\/preparing-procurement-for-the-millennial-workforce","title":{"rendered":"Preparing Procurement for the Millennial Workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently came across a Harvard Business Review (HBR) article on \u2018Solving Gen Y\u2019s Passion Problem\u2019, and the very next day I read our very own Richard Waugh\u2019s interview with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dev.zycus.com\/freshz\/blog\/procurement-technology\/next-gen-chief-cognitive-procurement-officers\">CPO<\/a>\u00a0Rising on bringing in the millennial workforce to the world of procurement.\u00a0 Let\u2019s say that 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