For any young worker who needs to hear this, your power in the labour market won’t last and quietly quitting could be setting you up to get loudly fired
Illustration: TBS
“>
Illustration: TBS
Every generation faces a skeptical reception in the labour force. Baby boomers were called self-centred, Gen X was lazy and millennials were considered entitled. For Gen Z, it’s the same — but different. When I was at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last week, there was the normal buzz about economic conditions and climate change. But everyone I spoke with mainly wanted to talk about something else: How the pandemic has changed the labour market, and especially how it has affected Gen Z.
Young people have never entered the labour force with more power —…