Experts are warning young Aussies of an emerging trend contributing to an alarming rate of Gen Z employees being fired across the US. Exposure to social media, the rise of online work or study environments, and modernisation as a whole are encouraging young people to adopt an array of behaviours potentially putting their jobs at risk. A survey conducted by Intelligent.
com shows at least 75 per cent of US companies were not satisfied with recent hires aged 27 or younger, with 60 per cent of those employees “having to be fired”. Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today Recurring problems included young employees being “entitled, too easily offended, lazy and generally unprepared for the workplace”. Other issues were consistently leaving early or starting late, and poor communication skills.
Half of the respondents said Gen Z workers were most likely to display a lack of motivation and 46 per cent said they showed a lack of professionalism on the job. Most companies tried to support the workers — 79 per cent of participating companies said they implemented performance improvement plans for their younger staff. However, they had little success and still resulted in staff termination.
One survey participant wrote that “Gen Z suffers from the public perception that they are chronically limited by short attention spans, a habit of laziness and insistence on a robust work-life balance” which is likely “a by-product of growing up in a digital world”. Now expe.
