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Engagement Party

Gen Z Is Challenging How We Think About Work

Engagement Party

CNN

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4.6986 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

We’ve all seen the headlines: Gen Z is “lazy.” “Entitled.” They’re constantly asking for raises, and they complain too much. But are these things really a “problem”? This week, Audie chats with two Gen Z’ers with some #thoughts on how we think about work: DeAndre Brown, TikTok creator and founder of Gen XL Consulting, and Maia Ervin, Chief Impact Officer at the Gen Z consulting company JUV. Then, Audie brings their thoughts to the researcher who literally wrote the book on generations, Jean Twenge. Call and leave us your assignments: (202) 854-8802 or email TheAssignment@CNN.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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There are some things that I took for granted in my early work experiences. I had to dress a certain way.

0:36.8

I actually had to go physically to the office. And even if

0:41.9

the role was supposed to be nine to five, it was pretty much understood that being available

0:46.4

around the clock made me a far more appealing worker. And if things went wrong or a story I was

0:52.5

working on got uncomfortable or say I didn't meet my deadline that day.

0:57.4

I mean, maybe I could, like, cry about it, but I definitely had to do that in private.

1:02.5

Like, across the street behind the pillar of another office building private.

1:07.3

Never in front of co-workers.

1:09.6

Why are we all acting like we're not human?

1:11.6

Why do I have to come into work as a black person and act like the things that are

1:15.6

affecting me as a black person aren't and just put my head down and do my work?

1:19.6

But do I personally cry often? No.

1:22.6

But will I shame somebody for expressing emotion? No, that's not my thing either.

1:26.6

I am a junior analyst

1:28.6

just graduated college, and my pronouns are pay me. When it comes to additional work,

1:35.5

calling me after my nine to five, I go by pay me. Gen Z has very different ideas about work culture,

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