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.
Damn it's almost like generations aren't real
:shocked-pikachu:
I mean it's true that people born in certain time periods are going to have fundamentally different worldviews, but it's something that shifts in a continuous way and doesn't fit these extremely well defined buckets. The only "generations" that make sense from a practical standpoint are the boomers and millenials since they correspond to noticeable birth rate increases and declines, and thus have some public policy implications. But for the most part it's marketing bullshit that we all decided to believe.