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Highlighting the need to buckle down and put in the long hours' ponits to how we still have not learned from our mistakes. Americans already work the most hours of any developed nation, and that did not stop us from getting into this mess. Instead, corporations should look to these difficult times as a chance to change and innovate. This crushing recession will break many of the companies that refuse to change and embrace a new mindset. Millennials and their like minded co-workers do just offer a real solution to a corporation's problems: decentralization. While it requires a more efficient and responsible manager, decentralization, flextime, and work from home offer real alternatives to reducing the fixed costs of an office. The mentality that just by sitting at your desk for an extra two hours a day will somehow make this recession go away is ridiculous. I would direct you to take a look at Best Buy, a company who is reinventing itself for the 21st century. They realized that their workplace was not appealing to the next generation, and put in place a system without schedules, made meetings optional, and judged a person only on their performance. They have seen both a reduction in voluntary turnover and an increase in productivity precisely because they listened to Gen Y.