A new generation of employees is refusing to simply ‘tough out’ bad treatment and bad pay. What’s so wrong with that?, says author Hannah Jewell
A new generation of employees is refusing to simply ‘tough out’ bad treatment and bad pay. What’s so wrong with that?
As many columnists, business book authors, and upper managers would often have it, the younger set are simply terrible workers. They ask for too much, they do too little, they do not respect hierarchies, they don’t want to pay their dues, they say “like” too much, they have tattoos on their arms, they’re always looking at their phones, and they quit their jobs instead of miserably sticking it out.
But it isn’t actually true that young people work less hard than their elders. And even if it were – why shouldn’t we aspire to a future with less work?“The 37-year-olds are afraid of the 23-year-olds who work for them”. It gestured to a division between anxious, conscientious millennials, many of whom had entered the workplace in the shadow of the 2008 crash; and their Gen Z counterparts, who feel comfortable “delegating to their boss”.
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