Twenty-somethings rolling their eyes at the habits of their elders is a longstanding trend, but many employers said there’s a new boldness in the way Gen Z dictates taste.

At a retail business based in New York, managers were distressed to encounter young employees who wanted paid time off when coping with anxiety or period cramps. At a supplement company, a Gen Z worker questioned why she would be expected to clock in for a standard eight-hour day when she might get through her to-do list by the afternoon. At a biotech venture, entry-level staff members delegated tasks to the founder. And spanning sectors and start-ups, the youngest members of the work force have demanded what they see as a long overdue shift away from corporate neutrality toward a more open expression of values, whether through executives displaying their pronouns on Slack or putting out statements in support of the protests for Black Lives Matter.

  • GenXen [any, any]
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    3 years ago

    Let's see, we have a nice collection here: An apparel brand, a couple of supplement startups, a retail business selling shitty drop shipped items through a trendy for 2007 website.

    This entire article is:

    "I'm an upper class college educated 'entrepreneur' that received an advance from the trust fund a loan for my shitty startup, and managed to 'hustle' some VC's into a round or two. I'm absolutely shocked that these poors don't want to slave themselves for this once in a lifetime opportunity at my company that I totally intend on running for decades and in no way looking for the first exit possible via corporate buyout."