Kids these days are so demanding ... or are they? For the last number of years, employers have been struggling to understand how to work with and integrate younger adults such as Gen Zs, or Zoomers, into the workplace.
Millennials, born between 1981 to 1996, largely fell into existing work structures but Gen Z employees, born between 1998 and 2012, are chafing against traditional work choices and patterns compared with their older colleagues. This cohort of about 1.1 million, or 21 per cent of the population in Ireland, will soon dominate the mid to lower half of the workplace so employers are working hard to attract and retain them.
“In just five years’ time, nearly three out of every four workers globally will be a Gen Z or Millennial and that signals a whole new way of working,” according to Deloitte’s Gen Z and Millennial Global Survey of more than 23,000 young workers – including 415 from Ireland – across 44 countries. “This isn’t just a generational trend, it’s a fundamental shift in how people relate to work, purpose and growth.”
The 14th annual survey “reveals a genera
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