The article discusses how Gen Z, projected to make up over 25% of the U.S. workforce by 2025, differs from previous generations in certain workplace challenges. Influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, Gen Z members often lack traditional early career experiences, like internships, which can hinder their professional adaptability. Alison Green highlights that complaints about younger workers aren't new but the context of their inexperience is heightened by the pandemic's impact, potentially requiring new approaches from employers to support this unique cohort.
Because of COVID-19's impact on this cohort's high school and college years, many in the group missed out on experiences like internships and summer jobs, so they're starting their professional careers without already having learned the "How work works" lessons that generations before them often got.
In my experience as a manager, this is usually BS. It's not that generational differences don't exist-they do. But most of the complaints about young workers, of any generation, are simply about young people.
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