Why is everyone talking about… Gen Z firings?
Welcome to Personio Pulse: This Week in HR, where each week we take a look at the latest trends in the world of work, what you need to know about them and what they mean for you as an HR professional.?
This week, we’re talking about why Gen Z is getting fired at a more rapid rate than past generations and what your HR team should know about it.?
What you need to know?
Is Gen Z revealing themselves as the most difficult generation to work with? This is already a fraught topic, but some of the latest data has added even more complexity to organizations managing multiple generations at once – and it begins with how the first foray of Gen Z graduates are working out in the workplace.?
According to the education and career advisor platform Intelligent, around 60% of companies have cut Gen Z employees that they hired this year. And 15% of these organizations are already considering not hiring more postgraduates next year. If Gen Z is making any kind of first impression, to certain organizations out there it’s more of a negative one.?
Respondents to this survey identified three key issues with the employee who didn’t work out for them: 50% observed a lack of motivation, 46% felt a lack of professionalism, and 39% believed that their Gen Z workers had poor communication skills. Whether or not it’s true, it seems that workplace conflict between generations is climbing higher – and Gen Z may be the victim of much of it.?
What others are saying about it?
“I think Gen Z wants to come in and play the game exactly the way they want to play it…And sometimes, if you’re coming into a game where a bunch of other people are playing, you’ve got to play the way they play first,”
explains Grace McCarrick , Founder of Grace Note Strategies .
But just because Gen Z doesn’t necessarily play by the rules doesn’t mean they don’t have a place in corporate life. As HR consultant Bryan Driscoll details,
“Gen Z isn't afraid to demand respect, fair treatment, and work-life balance, and that makes some employers uncomfortable. Instead of adapting, they're reacting, and poorly… My advice to employers: stop viewing Gen Z as a threat and start seeing them as an opportunity to innovate your workplace.”
What that means for you
It’s true that every generation catches some flack when they’re first entering the workforce – in fact the same was true of millennials as it is now of Gen Z, writes Inc. Magazine . But today’s data is worrying enough that organizations may want to consider the following:?
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1 个月It’s interesting to see the stats but it’s clear that this medicine is not favourable to all. A generation was bound to come along to call others out for their wayward ways. For too long individuals have gone in with the intention of playing “the way they play first” only to lose their purpose and fight. Time and time again it’s been proven it doesn’t work so before businesses and organisations get stuck between a rock and a hard place they will have to start looking at their structure and start circling back to the fundamentals they’ve had on the back burner for way too long.