Generation Z are lazy snowflakes who don't want to come to the office? That's a load of nonsense, say experts

"Today's 'screenagers' have grown up against a backdrop of crises, but they get their work done at 'incredible speed' The country is "grinding to a halt", thundered Digicel founder Denis O'Brien in a speech to the Business Post Economic Outlook Forum last week, holding forth with all the bluster of a Dickensian industrialist. Remote working was a "mistake". Most "troubling" of all, he said, was a "decline in our work ethic"."

"The country is "grinding to a halt", thundered Digicel founder Denis O'Brien in a speech to the Business Post Economic Outlook Forum last week, holding forth with all the bluster of a Dickensian industrialist. Remote working was a "mistake". Most "troubling" of all, he said, was a "decline in our work ethic". And who was to blame for this malaise of aimlessness and stagnation? A familiar scapegoat: the wayward youth."

Denis O'Brien declared that the country is "grinding to a halt" and called remote working a "mistake", linking economic stagnation to a "decline in our work ethic". He placed blame on younger workers, labeling Irish graduates as "entitled" and saying they expect to "dictate their work practices to employers". The label "screenagers" refers to a generation shaped by crises that nonetheless completes tasks at remarkable speed. The situation exposes a clash between traditional business expectations and younger workers' demands for flexibility, speed, and different workplace norms.

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