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You can’t pin workforce problems all on Gen Z
Managers must take time to help ease the anxieties of a Covid-19 generation
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While Gen Z employees are caught "between Covid-19 and ChatGPT", their managers are also too burnt out to mentor them, said one consultant.
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Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson
I was just out of university and at the end of my first week in work when an older colleague took me aside, in the pub, inevitably. “You seem like a nice guy,” said this careworn veteran, who might have been 32 at the time, “but you give the impression that you’re studying journalism, not practising it.”
He had a point, which I took to heart. But this exchange came back to me as I read the latest headlines about how anxious today’s employers seem about their newest recruits.
