Starting a career has increasingly felt like a right of passage for Gen Z and Millennial workers struggling to adapt to the working week and stand out to their new bosses.

But it looks like those bosses aren’t doing much in return to help their young staffers adjust to corporate life, and it could be having major effects on their company’s output.

Research by the London School of Economics and Protiviti found that friction in the workplace was causing a worrying productivity chasm between bosses and their employees, and it was by far the worst for Gen Z and Millennial workers.

The survey of nearly 1,500 U.K. and U.S. office workers found that a quarter of employees self-reported low productivity in the workplace. More than a third of Gen Z employees reported low productivity, while 30% of Millennials described themselves as unproductive.

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[–] 50 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I think these last few years of geriatric rule is just going to be a lesson of what not to do for when we take control.

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    By the time these fucking boomers retire we'll be geriatric too :(

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    But with the lessons learned from a lifetime of hardship, perhaps we stand a chance of not continuing the cycle. We lived the struggle, the grind, the hustle. It's just up to us to not inflict it in turn.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    "We'll be different" - Every generation ever.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    These people do realize that boomers used to be the hippies, right?

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The cool ones died or retired. What we have left are the cowards, hall monitors and people so boring that even though they can afford to retire they wouldn't know what to do with themselves so they keep working, keep being in charge, keep shitting up everything.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    What I mean is that by the time it's our turn to lead the best decision will be that we're too old and we should let zoomers run the show lol

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    A good sign that this is what's gonna happen is if you look around our generation is the first generation that is trying to work with the next ones to do better which has never been the case before. There is a reason millennials and gen Z are always in the headlines together.

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