To think Gen Z is difficult to manage at work?

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I have noticed younger people tend to be more cynical and argumentative, with less work boundaries/respect for hierarchies (which is not necessarily a bad thing, but can come across as presumption/arrogance). This makes it more difficult to manage them at work imo.

Have you noticed any similar behaviours?

No, this sort of thing is widespread

"they know their value."

Incorrect. They know what they perceive their value to be.

I admire the boundaries and the work life balance prioritisation - more power to them.

What I dont admire- and what my experience is of 100% of Gen Zs I have managed - is their refusal to "pay their dues".

Of course you won't come in to a business on a great salary doing only the jobs you enjoy. - they genuinely can't seem to grasp this and seem affronted when asked to do traditionally entry level duties for a traditionally entry level pay.

Entry level will involve a lot of people telling you what to do. Such is life.

Not my experience
the worst people I’ve had on my team recently are in their 30s, but we also have fabulous employees in that age group

I would say they are lazy - that's my experience anyway.

Just like the sarcasm sailed over your head? As did the whole post, it died a few weeks ago

@MXVIT tbf entry levels wages haven't really gone up in the last 10-15 years. They're not enough to live on.

I was on £17k my first year in 2018... in London.

In a tight labour market they can afford to be picky.

At the end of the day this generation have grown up seeing their parents and previous generations being increasing treated as a disposable commodity in the workplace. Redundancies and casualisation are far more common than they were a generation ago. In such an environment the promise of great rewards in a few years time if they can knuckle down now, pick up the bad jobs and give lots of discretionary effort seems like a deal that they have no faith in. Rightly or wrongly they want incentives now as they have no idea if they will be working in the same place in a year or two's time.

Whilst I agree that you do need to "pay your dues" in many careers, Gen Z's rejection of that a product of the system they have grown up in.

@IDontWantToBeAPie - agreed, and that's a separate legit debate, I suppose how I should have worded it should have been they expect to come in and be on the same salary as their superiors.

@Eleganz - someone has to do the entry level jobs, my experience with Gen Z is that they feel entry level jobs are beneath them despite being fresh into the world of work.

I’m a Millennial and my thoughts on Gen Z are summed up perfectly by this Reddit post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/misanthropy/comments/107apo8/gen_z_is_trash/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf