Gen Z Is Embracing the Great Stay

In fact, tired of remote work, Gen Zers are even embracing office life.

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Here are today’s highlights:            

• Gene Marks says you will soon be able to point your phone around your warehouse, and it will tell you what inventory you have and what to reorder.

• Shawn Busse explains what a $4,000 estimate for a plumbing job says about the current state of the blue-collar trades.

• If we stopped taxing overtime pay, would that create a “whole new workforce”?

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Gen Z seems to be embracing office life: “Gen Z has overtaken Baby Boomers in the workforce this year, with 21 million of them employed full time in the U.S., according to an analysis from job-ranking site Glassdoor. They account for more than a third of all hires and 16.8 percent of the total workforce, according to payroll and HR data analyzed by ADP Research. The oldest members of Gen Z are 27, three years shy of the big 3-0. The youngest are 12, long from their office years. Young workers in previous generations have questioned the value of corporate life before ultimately settling into the 40-hour workweek. Today’s junior employees say they are pleasantly surprised with their office jobs and the structure they offer, especially when jobs are harder to get. Paid time off and even dressing up for the day spur 20-somethings to brag about their jobs on social media.”

• “Sidney Cooper, a self-described introvert, used to enjoy working remotely. But after a few months at home, the 26-year-old Evansville, Ind., marketing manager missed in-person interactions. ‘It was lonely and depressing, and I wanted an in-office position,’ Cooper says.”

• “Five months into her current role, Cooper says she relishes going to the office and interacting with her co-workers. Her job entails her putting on a lot of events in the community, giving her more chances to interact with others. She makes TikToks about the small things that make her happy at work, like a great avocado-toast lunch or a midday Diet Coke.”

• “White-collar Gen Z workers are staying at a company 18 percent longer than millennials did in their first seven years in the workforce, reports Live Data Technologies, an employment and job-change research provider. ‘Gen Z is more aligned with Gen X and Boomer timelines in terms of the amount of time they spend at a company,’ says Jason Saltzman, the firm’s director of growth. He says this period of employment is called ‘the great stay,’ since more people are sticking around.” READ MORE