As Gen Z overtakes boomers in the workforce, a look at the changing perspectives on jobs
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🗓️ 2 October 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This year for the first time members of Generation Z, those born after 1997, are expected to |
| 0:07.9 | outnumber baby boomers in the workforce. |
| 0:10.7 | They bring with them, like past generations, different expectations, attitudes towards upper management, and views on the importance of work in their daily lives. |
| 0:19.0 | Stephanie Sigh has more in a moment, but first let's hear from workers in those different generations. |
| 0:25.0 | I'm Chris Hicks, a 29-year-old millennial engineer from Cleveland Ohio. |
| 0:30.0 | My name is Ingrid Camphouse. I am Generation X. I am based in Springfield, Illinois. I work in state government and I am a learning and development manager. |
| 0:41.0 | My name is Gabriel Kasul. I'm a retail sales associate and part of |
| 0:45.2 | Gen Z. My name is Lucinda Manley. I work in Florida in the insurance |
| 0:50.4 | industry and have for over 40 years and I am the boomer generation. |
| 0:56.7 | I would say for a good portion of my career I did make work my identity. |
| 1:02.3 | I am not proud of that. It would be to the point where I was working every evening all the time on the weekends. |
| 1:11.4 | There were many times where my partner would take the laptop |
| 1:15.0 | out of my hands as we were in bed. |
| 1:17.5 | I had to force myself to work within certain hours |
| 1:21.7 | and then turn off my phone afterwards, right? |
| 1:26.3 | Just so that way I can maintain some sort of peace for myself and protect my relationships and hobbies. |
| 1:31.6 | I was working for a company that we had high demand customers. |
| 1:37.8 | My daughter at the time was going to take her driver's test. |
| 1:41.4 | In the middle of all of this, I was doing a certificate of insurance and I remember |
| 1:46.0 | her telling me, mom, can you stop working? I'm learning to drive. I'm taking my test, |
| 1:53.1 | can you focus on me for a change? |
| 1:55.6 | That was sort of an epiphany for me |
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