I’m going to say the same thing I told the executives I work with at my current company: Bullsh*#
I’ve hired nearly 2 dozen Gen Zs in the past 10 years and my daughters are both Gen Z.
If you screen, hire, and train correctly they are just as hard working as any other generation. Put them in the role that fits them and train them up and they are great.
They have suffered a disservice from the colleges they attended in comparison to prior generations, but that isn’t necessarily their fault as much as the prior generations who didn’t police the universities properly...similar to how our govt. got out of control.
Agree.
The one really disturbing thing about younger generations in the workplace is the inability to NOT share EVERYTHING - the TMI is SOP.
I agree, the majority of the Gen Zers I interact with are astute, hard workers. And as a Boomer who got into and out of HR before it got radically feminized, I can agree with some of their outlook on work life.
They’ve been scammed by colleges and they’ve seen their parents take the promotion now with a promise from the employer that they’d see a raise at the next review, only for the raise to never happen.
As college students, most of them worked an entry level retail job where they were expected to work off the clock to be considered a “team player”.
An more than once, they were told “our employees are like family”, at least until they texted the layoff notice.
I worked for corporate employers that did all that on an almost daily basis....and was the one who had to communicate that to employees.
But at the same time, Gen Z comes replete with a know-it-all attitude, utterly fails at acquiring skills and knowledge voluntarily, and whines loudly about the same things we experienced years ago.
I have 7 Gen Z grandkids. One is a recent college grad , one is about to graduate, another in college, two about to graduate high school an two in high school. The recent grad is working his ass off. He often works 12 hour days and he’s no slacker. His brother who is about to graduate is the same… worked all through college.
My 15 year old granddaughter held down 2 jobs during the summer and really doesn’t need to work but she enjoys it.
“Articles” like this are so non-productive. Just clickbait, IMO.