The characteristics, preferences and attitudes of millennials have been the subject of considerable research, as the world—and employers—attempt to fully understand this younger generation.

Now comes a study from the CBRE Group Inc. that suggests much of the research to date has gotten it wrong, and that, in reality, millennials have more rather than less in common with the generations that preceded them.

Entitled "Designing the office of the future? Don't plan it around (what you think you know about) U.S. millennials," the study of more than 5,500 office workers draws this succinct conclusion: "While current assumptions about millennials are driving the design of many workplaces today, there is actually little difference in workplace preferences between millennials, Generation Xers and baby boomers."

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