What's Wrong With Gen-Z | Explained With Data
Summary
TLDRThe video discusses how Generation Z is reshaping workplaces with their demands for better mental health support, work-life balance, and jobs with a larger purpose. It analyzes why there is friction between Gen Z and older generations, attributing it to Gen Z's unique experiences entering the workforce during the pandemic's remote work culture. The video argues both organizations and Gen Z employees need to practice empathy, set clear expectations, and dedicate time to understand each other better. It concludes that with some effort and understanding, workplaces can adapt to benefit all generations.
Takeaways
- 👨🎓 Gen Z's entry into the workforce has been marked by remote work due to the pandemic, affecting their workplace socialization and expectations.
- 📊 The majority of the Indian workforce now comprises Millennials and Gen Z, with Gen Z set to overtake Baby Boomers in the workplace by 2024.
- 🙏 Gen Z values mental health highly, with many preferring lower pay for better mental health benefits, influencing companies to expand health services.
- 🖥 Gen Z seeks a strict work-life balance, challenging traditional work cultures and advocating for practices like the 4-day work week.
- 🚫 The concept of 'quiet quitting' reflects Gen Z's belief in not overinvesting in work, emphasizing work is not their sole identity.
- 💰 Gen Z demands workplaces with a purpose beyond profits, showing a preference for companies that contribute positively to society and the environment.
- 🤷♂️ Older generations perceive Gen Z as challenging to work with, citing differences in work ethic and values.
- 📊 Gen Z's digital nativity shapes their worldviews and work expectations, influenced by global access to information and social media platforms.
- 🌎 Workplace dynamics are evolving with Gen Z's preferences, impacting hiring, retention, and company culture.
- 📝 Effective management of Gen Z involves clear expectation setting, understanding individual needs, and fostering a culture fit from the start.
Q & A
What percentage of the Indian workforce is made up of Millennials and Gen Z?
-From 1995 until now, 60% of India's 524 million strong workforce is formed by Millennials and Gen Z.
What is the predicted year when Gen Z will officially overtake Baby Boomers in the US workplace?
-In the USA, Gen Z will officially overtake the Baby Boomers in workplace by 2024.
What are some key demands Gen Z has for the workplace regarding mental health?
-Some key mental health demands Gen Z has are: better mental health practices and services in the workplace, willingness to be paid less in exchange for better mental health benefits, increased scope and spending on mental healthcare by companies.
What is meant by the term 'quiet quitting' in relation to Gen Z?
-'Quiet quitting' refers to the Gen Z belief that work should not be the only part of one's identity, so they don't feel the need to give 100% effort at work since the returns are disproportionate.
Why do managers sometimes struggle with hiring and working with Gen Z employees?
-Managers struggle because Gen Z entered the workforce during the pandemic mostly through remote work, so enculturation and expectation setting happened inadequately. The disconnect in expectations creates challenges.
What can organizations do to better align with Gen Z in terms of purpose?
-Organizations can work towards larger purposes beyond profits, prioritize environmental sustainability, and ensure alignment with Gen Z personal views and beliefs.
What are some solutions mentioned in the video for smooth collaboration between Gen Z and older generations?
-Solutions include clear expectation setting, understanding individual motivations, spending time getting to know team members, evaluating cultural fit early on, and having patience as a young employee.
How does the economic and political timing of when a generation enters the workforce impact their behaviors?
-The specific economic, political and technological climate when a generation enters work shapes their perspectives and reactions. This context helps explain some generational behaviors.
What can managers do to set expectations early on with new Gen Z hires?
-Managers can create guides outlining their management style, communication preferences, etc. They can codify workplace values, describe hardline policies upfront, and emphasize the importance of culture fit.
What advice does the speaker have for young people to build long-term careers?
-The advice includes having patience in new roles, dedicating more than 5-6 months before shifting jobs, not taking shortcuts, and not giving up easily when things get tough.
Outlines
😀 Introducing Gen Z's entry and impact in the Indian workforce
The paragraph introduces Gen Z as the latest generation entering the workforce, forming 60% of India's over 500 million strong workforce. It highlights how Gen Z is redefining the future of workplace with new demands around mental health, work-life balance, purpose over profits, and notions of "quiet quitting".
😊 Gen Z's demand for better mental health support at work
The paragraph elaborates on Gen Z's demand for better mental health benefits, with 61% willing to accept lower pay in exchange. It mentions how workplaces have expanded health services to meet this demand, creating business potential for mental healthcare services.
🤔 Gen Z wants strict work-life balance and meaningful work
The paragraph discusses Gen Z's desire for work-life balance, with 57% willing to work at companies fostering this. It touches on debates around work-life balance in India, linking it to Gen Z's greater demand for purpose and meaning in work beyond profits.
😕 The puzzling trend of 'quiet quitting' among Gen Z
This paragraph analyzes the trend of 'quiet quitting' - where Gen Z believes work should not define their entire identity. 73% of Indian Gen Z align with limiting work efforts to match returns. This is seen as entitlement by older generations.
😮 Why Gen Z is reshaping the workplace
The paragraph looks at reasons behind Gen Z trends - remote work during pandemic limited workplace enculturation; greater world exposure and opinion sharing power with social media emboldened their views; and inheriting more anxious world. It draws parallels to coming-of-age trends of past generations.
🤝 Building understanding to work better with Gen Z
This concluding paragraph shares tips for working with Gen Z - set clear expectations early on; understand individual motivations; have patience as Gen Z builds careers avoiding quick jumps. It advocates reading 'Good Work' essay to find work fulfilment.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Gen Z
💡mental health
💡work-life balance
💡purpose
💡retention
💡pandemic
💡information access
💡enculturation
💡expectation setting
💡patience
Highlights
Gen Z represents 32% of the global population and is redefining the future of workplace.
61% of Indian Gen Z prefer being paid less in exchange for better mental health benefits at work.
Gen Z is more likely to work at organizations actively working to make the world better and align with their personal views.
Gen Z experienced workplaces devoid of joy through screens, with deteriorating mental health of older generations.
Gen Z is the first generation to experience the blurring of online and offline worlds.
Access to information impacts how Gen Z views the world and their place in it.
Criticism of Gen Z is that previous generations did not enjoy their level of self-expression.
Anxiety Gen Z has about workplace stems from irreversible changes like AI, climate change, rising costs.
Every generation goes through a teething period when joining the workplace.
Codify your company values and become known for them to attract talent that fits your culture.
Understand what your employees' motivations are and help them fulfill those needs.
Building something lasting requires time, patience, hard work and luck.
Don't give up on work you enjoy if it gets tough on some days.
Share work you find meaningful rather than leave jobs quickly.
Possibility of loving your work enough to dedicate 70 hours per week.
Transcripts
chanaka
Kumar chanaka Kumar
it is a shame for a man to grow old
without seeing the beauty and strength
his body is
capable
what is this nonsense I'm getting
bullied in your
show
you guys don't know
my person
decision jenzi quietly gave up and no
one noticed jenzi the first generation
with no purpose why is jendi rejecting
hustle culture and redefining the
meaning of work why the new generation
is harder to work with no no these are
not my thoughts if you simply type jenz
plus workspace in your YouTube search
bar the videos with the highest views
will have these headlines sure YouTube
headlines can often be clickbait but
what truly surprised me was the sheer
number of videos made on this topic
something is definitely going on here so
we have around 80 people across the
companies okay and 60% of them are genzi
so as we expand and hire and grow the
organization I was reading about this
and I was curious why are we leveling
these allegations against the new adults
entering the workforce after all they
will also be around right so I decided
to understand the situation better do
Young Folks really hate work and are a
pain to work with or is there something
else going on here so whether you're a
startup founder manager or just a jenzy
who's getting into their first job watch
till the end because I have some very
interesting findings which can help you
so the workforce has four different
Generations first is Baby Boomers then
is Gen X third is Millennials and the
last is Generation Z or gen Z until 1995
60% of the Indian Workforce comprised of
Baby Boomers and Genex but from 1995
until now 60% of India's 524 million
strong Workforce is formed by
Millennials and genzies and the number
of genzies in the workforce is only
going to increase in fact in the USA
genzies will officially overtake the
Baby Boomers in workplace by 2024 yep
that's this year so goodbye to all
oldies if you see globally jendi
represents approximately 32% of the
global population and they are
redefining the future of workplace here
is how starting with mental health
according to a report by deoy Indian
companies lose about 14 billion dollars
every year in value because of poor
mental health practices in the workplace
and jenz wish to change that in fact I
don't know this but did you know that
61% of Indian genzies prefer being paid
less in exchange for better mental
health benefits in the workplace to
their credit eight in 10 workplaces in
India have expanded Health Services to
include mental health benefits in 2023
in fact their ENT demand for better
mental health has also increased the
business scope for these services Bloom
Ventures for instance in its October
2022 report pegged the Indian mental
healthcare industry online and offline
as a roughly $3 billion opportunity wo
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the master class now the second thing
that jenz seem to want is prioritizing
strict work life balance see Mental
Health Services is still something a
workplace can quickly adapt to but the
question of 4day work week and Notions
of work life balance immediately sends
Indian Genex into a TI if you spend time
on the internet you must have seen that
in the last two years work life balance
has become a hotly contested Topic in
the Indian workplace so much so that we
have someone or the other discussing it
every quarter and getting cancelled from
Naran mu's 70-hour work we comment to
shantanu Desh Pand LinkedIn post on work
life balance and babish shara's
glorification of no work life balance
all were met with some kind of
resistance Indian employees are not
expected to have a survey said that 57%
of genzies would work for companies that
Foster strict work life balance but
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question is what is this work life
balance event and how does Indian genz
Define work life balance I have a life
outside this cubicle I want flexible
work
timing laptop so I can work from my
home I can work 10 times harder when I'm
in my comfort zone and my comfort no
dress
C I can't travel to work man my D just
told me that I can't go out in the sun
look at my skin so you heard that that
is work life balance for jenes fun fact
here in July 2023 Lazy Girl jobs became
a social media Trend highlighting the
importance of work life balance what are
lazy girl jobs now simply put lazy legal
jobs promote work life balance as
opposed to extreme ambition and work to
the point of burnout but that being said
work life balance is still an important
factor that Indian genes value just as
much before they join an organization so
far how genzies are reshaping the
workplace and the demands don't seem to
over the top right if better Mental
Health Services and ensuring work life
balance makes the workplace more
efficient we should fulfill such demands
what do you think however there is one
specific demand or should I say silent
Rebellion which doesn't quite make sense
to me it's what they are calling quiet
quitting I'm sorry for throwing all this
jargon at you in one day but let me
explain so jenes basically believe that
work is not the only part of their
identity to further this belief they
feel they need not give that 100% to a
workplace because the returns are only
100% for some employees so the quiet
quitting hashtag caught up in July 2022
and for once it wasn't just an American
trend jenz from all all over the world
even from Asia participated in it a
survey conducted by slack on knowledge
workers in India noted that 73% of
Indian genzies aligned with ideas like
quiet quitting in fact Kevin oi of Shar
Tang Fame taged The Quiet quitting
movement as being worse than the
pandemic only to be globally cancelled
by genzies who felt that they wouldn't
die for jobs that don't care for the
people who work for them this brings us
to another factor that Jen's belief
should change in the workplace that is
purpose this quiet quitting movement and
the great resignation were all social
media movements highlighting that much
work is inherently not meaningful see
jenes feel they need to be fully
involved in the workplace the
organizations they work for also had to
work towards the purpose larger than
profits so profits out purpose in if the
jenes redesign the workplace that will
definitely be a flavor but the question
here is what does organization with a
purpose even mean does it mean that
every business should be an NGO does it
mean the mission and vision statements
of organizations are now important nope
genzies want to work at organizations
that are actively working to make the
world a better place they are less
likely to work at organizations that
disagree with their personal views and
beliefs of the world additionally
they're also prioritizing environmental
sustainability issues that concern the
workplace look at the snapshot from deoe
India survey on geni priorities in the
workplace in fact according to another
survey 88% % of genes in India
considered switching jobs in the
organization they worked with wasn't
politically and environmentally equipped
to make changes for a better future now
let's ask ourselves how does this
actually change a workplace the answer
is it impacts retention see a workplace
invests significant time and money in
training a fresh hire and after youve
invested your time energy genzies will
still leave because they don't feel that
larger purpose and it can obviously piss
off the hiring managers and colleagues
from older Generations because they have
wasted a significant amount of time and
money and effort and this is where the
narrative about genzies shift from they
are demanding to they are entitled so
let's look at what the managers are
saying now they feel that jenzi is way
too aware of the world but not enough to
understand that it works less ideally
than they would like it to this
discrepancy between jenes owning their
opinions and trying to enforce them in a
workplace also creates a Chasm where
hiring is concerned so last year April
when Resume Builder ser over 1300
managers and Business Leaders they found
that 74% of them believe jenzi is more
challenging to work with than other
Generations 34% of these respondents
prefer to work with Millennials 30% with
Genex and 4% with Baby Boomers 65% said
that they more commonly need to fire
genzies than employees of other
Generations being too easily offended
was the top reason for genes getting
fired honestly I wouldn't blame the
managers because see when you start work
it's supposed to be new and challenging
so you may not have work life balance
from the get-go and jenes can't jump the
gun to behave in entitled ways even
before they get hired but it turns out
that not being hired is also a nonissue
for genzies because they can always do
something called rage apply understand
that your jargon comprehension meter for
today is broken but bear with me for
just a few minutes so what is Rage apply
after the quiet quitting movement of
2022 rage applier surface in 2023 so
when unhappy at your current job apply
to all open positions to see if you can
get a better pay raise at your new job
so this turn actually started in Canada
when a Tik Tok user redw a social media
marketeer shared an experience of
applying to 15 jobs after being angry at
her workplace and landed a job with a
$25,000 hike garnering millions of views
many users were vouching for the trend
by sharing their successful stories of
of securing jobs with Hefty hikes and
perks if you pointed out that jenzi was
redefining the workplace one social
media viral Trend at a time you would be
right I can literally keep going on and
on about jenz quirks in the workplace
but the more crucial piece of this
discussion is why are genzies being
targeted so aggressively is there any
solution to all this firstly why are so
many problem arising even I found a
majority of these answers and let me
take you through them so you see Jen's
entry into the work Force happened
during the pandemic remote work was
basically the definition of a workplace
while this may not sound important to
you but it is a big deal let me explain
why see when we first start school we
learn to be students by observing our
peers teachers and other authority
figures shape our Behavior through close
contact in fact even our parents teach
us how to behave in social situations
when we are children so in sociology
there's a concept called enculturation
which basically says that we learn how
how to behave in an environment with the
help of others who have been around for
longer now in the case of jenes the
workplace and culturation happened over
Zoom calls remote work and a very
mentally taxing time for the world genz
is observed Millennials and genx is
deteriorating mental health crushing
pressure to work and deliver results at
a time when the world had stopped moving
so in their initial working years they
worked remotely with additional stress
of how the world would normalize once
the pandemic ended this uncertainty
looming at the time was a lot to deal
with regardless of which generation
you're from so without appropriate
communication between older employees
and the new genes workplace expectation
setting didn't happen as usual I'll tell
you what was happening there was a lot
of Blank Space due to new ways of work
culture and it set up expectations in
the wrong direction while remote work
did prove beneficial jenz did not get
enough experience in physical office
setups till after 2 years of entering
the workforce and endless Zoom calls
slack notifications even had the other
Generations deing from something called
online fatigue so if you look at it
Jen's experienced workplaces devoid of
Joy through their screens where first
mental health workshops and game night
did not change their view of work yeah
you can say that it was temporary and
everyone experienced the same situation
however starting work in such an
environment added to the mystery in fact
in India 2021 was marked by jenz is
getting rejected in spite of being
qualified another reason for this
targeted attack has nothing to do with
jenzi and all to do with their timing of
their birth people born between 1997 and
2012 are considered genzies the internet
came around in 1995 and it literally
changed how we did everything so think
about it okay jenzi is actually the
first generation to experience the
blooding of online and offline worlds
with the innovation in cameras mobile
phones t TV genzies are exposed to way
more information from the world than
other generations and this access to
information certainly impacts how you
view the world and your place in it for
example watching news about fires in
Haiti and witnessing a fundraising
campaign gather Aid in record time can
change one's perspective on how fast
change occurs globally think about it
even regarding careers genes have way
more access to what's possible because
of how economies have advanced the world
has indeed become smaller and more
accessible masking the inherent
complexity with which it operates
platforms like Facebook YouTube
Instagram have allowed people to express
themselves Steely and for any genen Z to
think that their opinion counts is as
easy as putting out a rant video about
their workplace and going viral honestly
most Generations before the genzies did
not have this kind of sway in the world
part of the reason jenes are a target of
criticism is that the previous
generations did not enjoy this level of
self-expression I mean we were too
scared of our parents to express any
opinion whatsoever lastly to be fair
genzies are inheriting a world that is
at the cusp of some really irreversible
changes be it AI climate change rising
cost of living or unaffordable education
all of these factors lend to the anxiety
aeny has about the workplace no wonder
they prioritize mental health or want to
work for businesses that value larger
purposes like the climate it's actually
very similar to the emotions you Gra
with when you hit puberty actually you
know what genes are not the only
generation going through puberty in a
workplace it has happened before with
other Generations too if you look at the
Baby Boomers they entered the workforce
at the back of a new found victory of
independent struggles and post-war
economic decline so naturally with
primary Industries being set up and
large corporations defining the meaning
of work the Boomers were encultured to
respect hierarchy and Authority but
constantly being subservient to
Authority also produced a a
counterculture movement in the west with
back toand voluntary Simplicity and
communal living experiments that were
all in part attempts to find meaning
outside the employment structure if you
look at baby rors puberty or rebellious
moment at work it was actually
represented by hippie culture at its
tenets which were also all anti-work
movements us Millennials too joined the
workplace right when the financial
crisis hit and had to make do with the
workplace with no space for our demands
I think the millennial puberty move mov
arrived when they were bombarded with
the follow your passion messages in
workplaces that weren't sufficiently
equipped to make space for such passion
I think all the current standup
comedians in India are great examples of
Millennials rebelling at work to meet
their demands so if you look at India
the demarcation between Generations
isn't as neat either because our
country's cultural economic and
political tropes are nothing like those
in the west see if you look at India the
pace of change differs slightly than the
West because our economy only opened up
after 199 91 economic reforms so you
will notice that our parents still value
government jobs and security moreover
Indian genzi Behavior can only be
attributed to Urban genes since their
counterparts in tier 2 and tier three
cities have vastly differently lives and
expectations from work but is this video
about rebranding genzies as the sound
generation if that's your takeaway I
support it but here's something I want
you to understand see each generation's
entry into the workplace is marked by a
specific economic political and
technological environment each
generation's reactions and how they play
out in the workplace have also been very
different genes and the behavior are
spoken about more than any other
generation because of our inent need to
document every little change and event
when we process the world one viral real
at a time we are bound to magnify
something that could be insignificant
and this is not going to stop anytime
soon but what needs to change is our
Gaze on genzies in the workplace see
every generation goes through a teething
period when they join a workplace
currently we are mere witness to the
jenz teething period what's different is
that we make content out of every little
detail out there podcast newspapers
startup blogs and everyone on Twitter
Reddit and Kora is talking about the
same details about jendi behaviors and
demands without sufficiently grasping
their context and context is key and to
be honest for the longest time I also
had a very similar narrative in my head
that genzies are entitled genes don't
want to work hard but once I spent some
time and understood the problem rather
this generation better I realiz this is
something very solvable so I would also
like to share a few things that have
helped me during hiring and working with
this generation some context here so a
and AOS are actually the first proper
organizations that I've built so I
didn't know a lot of this before but I
do know now the most important thing
that I've learned is expectation setting
what is okay what can this person expect
rules routine means setting expectations
around every single thing and this works
universally for jenzy Millennials anyone
you hire or get on board so the CEO of
stpe Claire Huges Jackson she has this
guide okay that she shares with whoever
she works with it's called a guide to
work with her which is everything listed
out her management style whether it's
Hands-On or collaborative how she gives
and takes feedback how she likes
communication and I found that to be
excellent it's literally crafting out
what an individual can Expect While
working with her this I feel is
something that every manager founder
should do in my opinion set clear
expectations on every single thing from
the very beginning and communicate them
again and again and again print them and
put them in your workplace if you have
to but this will definitely help
describe all the misery Hardline values
and set high standards Upfront for this
new joiny tell him or her how do you
guys get the job done in your
organization codify your values and
become known for them now can this DET
some Talent yes maybe but that means
they weren't a culture fit in the first
place see secondly while you want the
folks around you to understand your
working style you need to understand
them too I think what a lot of
organizations and managers forget is at
the end of the day the person you're
hiring is also a human and all humans
have the same needs they all want the
same thing and I feel like all of these
needs can easily be stacked against Mass
L hierarchy someone might be there for
purpose someone might just be there for
money but you need to know what they are
there for and that actually comes with
spending time and listening to them they
said that every manager can only have
five to seven people reporting to them
so if you have those five people do you
know those five people's life beyond
work what is it that they are there for
if somebody in your team has joined
because of your vision and purpose you
need to tell them the story of why the
company exists because that is what they
need to hear again and again to find
their work valuable if someone is there
to learn then you need to figure out how
the workplace can Aid that and how you
can help the them with their needs see
not all demands can be met obviously but
that is again where expectation settings
come into play lastly you know a lot of
this work can be done in the very
beginning itself before the person even
comes on board so artgil talks about
something called beer test where he says
that after you have found someone who
has the right skills take the person out
for dinner or beers and see if you and
your team would enjoy having the person
around if there'll be a culture fit if
the person has the skills which is
actually more easy to gauge just by
spending a little bit time with them so
you can actually solve a lot of these
problems and do expectation setting at
the very beginning itself now coming to
jendes who might just be starting out if
you want to build a long-term successful
career you need to have a little bit
patience so when we started a right we
had some really young folks join us and
leave wanting to replicate and build the
same thing they tried they weren't able
to do it then they came back so what I
figured that young folks don't realize
is that building something that outlasts
you requires a a lot of time patience
hard work and also a lot of luck right
decisions right timing in the right
direction is actually very hard to nail
see it's good to change your dreams but
stop looking for shortcuts I know it's
tough to even expect some of you to have
a 5-year plan but at least dedicate more
than 5 to 6 months to something you've
decided to pursue and really want if you
keep shifting jobs every 2 3 months
because it's not fun anymore how will
you reach that point where work actually
becomes fun how will you build any
leverage for yourself see anything new
is always hard and requires more time
and learning so don't give up before
you've even scratched the surface also
as much as all of you want to go explore
find yourselves go see the world when
you're young you also don't want to be
struggling for Capital when you're in
your 40s so don't make work or things
that bring you money your enemy anything
new is always going to be hard it
requires more time and learning so don't
give up before you've even scratched the
surface and I want to leave with one
last thing there is actually a
possibility of loving your work so much
that you want to dedicate 70 hours per
week to it so if you do find something
you enjoy do not give up on it if it got
a little tough or bad on few days or
wasn't fun on few days I want to share
an essay about good work in description
I think each and every one of you should
read it it helped me a lot and it could
help you too anyway that is it for
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