Mentors wanted. Only millennials need apply

Millennial mentorship programmes represent a formalised, mildly absurdist version of the advice junior workers have been giving their older colleagues for ages

Junior office workers once had a fairly predictable set of daily tasks. Write the sales memo. Build the PowerPoint. Make the coffee. Now, many young professionals have a new mandate: Drag the boss into the 21st century.

While businesses chase evanescent market trends and grapple with a fast-moving future, millennial mentors, as many companies call them, have emerged as a hot accessory for executives. Young workers, some just out of college, are being pulled into formal corporate programmes to give advice to the top ranks of their companies.

Millennial mentorship programmes represent a formalised, mildly absurdist version of the advice junior workers