Posted on 01/23/2024 2:23:01 PM PST by Angelino97
Gen Z employees have missed a day's work a week due to mental health concerns, new research has shown.
Figures reveal that the average office worker feels like they can't work properly due to their mental health for 50 work days per year. This costs Britain's economy a staggering £138bn a year.
While analysis by health insurance firm Vitality found that only six of these 50 days were taken off completely as sick leave, staff that did come to work struggled to achieve anything in the office.
These performance issues were linked to poor mental health, including burnout, stress, insomnia and obesity, the Times reports.
Vitality surveyed 4,000 employees and their employers on the time lost due to both absences as well as how present staff were at work.
The results show that those under 30 are more likely to report bad productivity at work compared to older generations.
Gen Z workers reported 60 lost productive days due to health concerns versus just 36 days for those aged 50 and over.
The research also found that younger employees were twice as likely to suffer from depression and showed higher levels of burnout and tiredness than their older coworkers.
This comes after figures revealed that employees took an average of 7.8 days off sick last year – the highest level since 2008.
The figure, from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), is up sharply from a record low just before Covid-19 struck.
The problem is worse among public sector workers, who are typically off sick for 10.6 days a year compared with their private sector colleagues on 5.8 days – although both sectors have seen steep increases.
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I continue to have sympathy for young people. Older people have built a bad world. Point to Obama. Point to Tony Blair. I don’t care who you point to. But 22-year-olds did not create the world of 2024. And the world of 2024 sucks pretty hard. But young people are stuck with it and I think it’s a shame.
The problem is worse among public sector workers, who are typically off sick for 10.6 days a year compared with their private sector colleagues on 5.8 days –
Fair points. 2024 is no picnic.
Generation Z is full of trannies, pronoun-obsessed 57 genders-types, so it’s not exactly surprising many of them aren’t mentally well.
Gen Z was born between 1997 and 2012.
Half of Gen Z is under 20 years old.
60% are still school age (secondary or college.)
Suggesting that a quite small percentage of them represents the entire cohort is just lazy.
Gen Z gets lots of stories written about them by people who don’t understand demographics or how all this “generation” stuff works. Very few of these articles are worth reading.
It's ironic. When I entered the office workforce in the 1980s, the world was easier, yet my generation was tougher.
Now, it's the reverse.
I’m guessing it’s either Mondays or Fridays - Mondays to recover from alcohol abuse, or Fridays to start drinking early.
So do I. Most of the young people I meet were raised by neglect., daycare , the public schools or just by being latchkey kids. They’re stunted.
At a conference, I met a young mother recently who bragged that she left her baby with a fever at home to go. My SIL has one child who won’t see her because she used to constantly make it clear about what a burden he was. She has terminal cancer wants to see him but she made her bed when he was a child.
I’ve sat at gatherings where the women make anti-men jokes in front of their sons.
Most people on this board will crap on the young people but what they are is the result of the parents who neglected to be parents.
It’s the indulgence of things like Tik-Tok. Then there are the women who have kids, a job and then complain about being “exhausted” and wonder why their husbands are gone.
I saw in the news last night now the illegal aliens are now seeking “mental health” workers, so there goes that resource for the rest of us. They will get priority. Our military vets will once again have to go to the back of the bus.
They are slowly starting to learn that their government took out a high interest credit card in their name and ran up 32 trillion in debt.
Good luck paying even the monthly interest on that kids. I would say learn to code but AI will do those jobs.
third time, hit the pavement...
Yes.
And I think it is smart for Conservatives to be sympathetic and to establish that our political philosophy would not have created a $32T debt. That we believe in personal freedom. That we support real opportunity. That we want America First and that Americans should be successful. If we have an open heart to young people, and show that the World of Progressives is a bad world -- and that it is not our world -- then the coming generation may be converted to our view of the world.
But if we are cold-hearted, and if we sneer at the snowflakes that we raised, and just say "Too bad for you!" And if we regale them with stories about how hard our life was 40 years ago, when kids played outside, there was no social media, little government surveillance, much smaller government debt, and vast technical regions of untapped economic growth -- if we tell them these tales and claim that we "suffered" in those days and now it's just their turn to suffer ... well, those young people will not like us very much, and they will hunger for a true communist society where the current trends continue and they can hope that Uncle Joe and his successors will just take care of them.
I'd rather be sympathetic and convert them, and I would rather avoid a scornful and dismissive attitude, making too little of their current struggles.
Hey, I believe those Gen Zeros would run down to the Armed forces offices and enlist, even if it meant killing killed, if China declared war on the US so they could defend this Republic ... Bwhahahahahahahahahaha
We have debt because the people wanted entitlements. Gen Z also wants entitlements. They're just mad that the pot was emptied out by previous generations.
That we believe in personal freedom.
Gen Z hates free speech.
That we support real opportunity.
Gen Z wants guaranteed participation rewards and payments.
As pointed out up thread, half of Gen Z is under 20 years old. The generation is not lost and can “wise up” if they are approached the right way. But I consistently see people on this board basically say (about teenagers!) “Your generation sucks, you are lazy, you are woke, you are snowflakes, you will never amount to anything.”
These are kids — half of them anyway. They were 11 or younger when Obama was elected. They have known Obama and Biden and that’s it — with the exception of 4 years of Trump in which the media constantly told them that he was literally Hitler and was ruining American with his stupid patriotism.
The deck has been stacked against these young people. They are still very young. They are growing up in a very screwed up world. Dismissing them out of hand is just a lost opportunity.
ummm, maybe DON’T PAY THEM ??
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