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WSJ Your Money Briefing

Why Gen Z Workers Are Cozying Up to Corporate Jobs

WSJ Your Money Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Business News

3.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Gen Zers and younger millennials, who once questioned the value of corporate life, are now embracing the structured workweek, steady paycheck, and employee benefits. Wall Street Journal reporter Ann-Marie Alcántara joins host J.R. Whalen to discuss. Sign up for the WSJ's free Markets A.M. newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

If only life had a remote control, you could pause or rewind.

0:03.6

Well, life doesn't always give you time to change the outcome, but pre-diabetes does.

0:08.5

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0:12.2

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0:15.0

Here's your money briefing for Friday, September 13th.

0:20.0

I'm J.R. W Waylan for the Wall Street Journal.

0:26.2

To people who've been in the workforce for a few decades, their office job might seem routine

0:31.1

and boring. Not so for Gen Z and millennials. The 20 and 30-somethings that once

0:36.5

celebrated not being cooped up in a cubicle now can't wait to show up for their

0:41.6

nine to five. They want to feel like they're doing

0:44.4

something with their work, something bigger, more meaningful, while also getting

0:49.0

that steady paycheck every two weeks. We'll talk to Wall Street Journal reporter Anne Marie Al-Kantara. After the break. If only life had a remote control, you could pause or rewind.

1:14.0

Well, life doesn't always give you time to change the outcome, but pre-diabedes does.

1:19.0

Take the one minute risk test today at do I have pre-diabedes.

1:22.0

Or brought to you by the Ad Council on its pre-diabedies awareness partners. Gen Z and younger millennials used to mock corporate jobs. Now many were embracing them.

1:37.0

Wall Street Journal reporter Anne-Marie Al-Kantara joins me.

1:40.0

Anne-Marie, why have corporate jobs had such a bad reputation among younger workers?

1:46.0

For many other reasons that all of us have probably experienced at some point,

1:49.0

low pay, unclear expectations for managers, things that are out of your control,

1:55.0

emails at 11 p.m. at night, things that have just existed for so long

1:59.0

that people who are just entering the workforce who are kind of worried about.

2:02.8

So what changed? What all of a sudden is appealing to them about working in an office?

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