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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

What Does Gen Z Want From the Workplace?

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Does Generation Z have the values employers are looking for, or has the culture shifted to individual happiness that has less to do with monetary success and career achievement? NYU Stern School of Business professor Suzy Welch talks to Paul Gigot about what her research has found about what younger workers want, and how companies may have to change as a result.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

0:40.5

Welcome to Potomac Watch,

0:45.5

the daily podcast of Wall Street Journal Opinion. I'm Paul as you go, and today my special guest is Susie Welch. She is a journalist and author, former editor of the Harvard Business Review,

0:51.8

and now a professor of management practice at New York University's

0:56.0

Stern School of Business. She is also the author of, among other books, becoming you the proven

1:02.8

method for crafting your life and career. She's here today to talk about a provocative research

1:09.2

into the different values and experiences

1:12.0

of Generation Z, which she teaches that generation at Stern and what employers want in

1:18.2

employees. She distilled these findings in a very provocative essay in the Wall Street

1:23.0

Journal. Headlined, is Gen Z employable? Maybe a too provocative.

1:27.9

Yeah, no, tell me. Very provocative. I think, is Gen Z unemployable? Is the headline? It was like a

1:36.9

lightning bolt, so. Yeah, it was the most red essay of our opinion pages in the last month. So

1:42.1

congratulations on that and welcome.

1:44.0

An honor. Thank you. So why don't you start by summing up what you found in your research,

1:49.2

because it really is striking. Absolutely. We have a tool at becoming you labs, which is the lab that

1:54.6

I'm very happy to run at NYU Stern. And the tool called the Values Bridge allows people,

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