Attracting and retaining millennials is important to any growing business.

By 2025, millennials will make up 75% of workers.

Laura Gayle of Better SMB /Marketing suggests 5 more ways to make your business more friendly.

1. Adopt high technology.

Millennials grew up with tablets and cell phones. It’s important to adopt the latest technologies to make these workers feel right at home.

Millennials’ tech savvy minds can help connect you with millennial customers.

Cloud-based marketing creates a customer journey to ensure they return.

Such technology includes laptops, wireless keyboards, mice and headphones, tablets, smart phones and dual monitor setups.

2. Flexible work hours.

Millennials value health and family above work, believing a flexible schedule makes them more productive and creative. They are accustomed to being constantly connected and often accomplish work on the fly.

Consider letting workers choose a window of time to get their work done. Flexible schedules often lead to fewer missed days and greater productivity. Consider letting them work from home.

Millenials often have small children and may be helping their older parents.

3. Focus on health. Millennials appreciate when employers care about their health and well-being. One way to do this is to create a company wellness program to help reduce stress and repetitive injuries. Task managers to form a committee on wellness programs.

When I worked at Westin in California, we offered an Annual Employee Health Fair, offered booths to health provider vendors in our ballroom, gave employees an hour to visit booths and provided a light healthy lunch.

4. Offer office perks such as free snacks, paid fitness memberships, sporting event tickets, discounts on travel and off-campus events.

5. Development and training. Millennials know education is a road to success. Provide training, tuition reimbursement and mentoring and coaching. Teach leaders how to be coaches and offer sales training and coaching.

Contact Lexington business coach Alysia Kehoe at alysia@kehoeconsultants.com