Work It Podcast: Why do Gen Z layoffs look so dramatic?
This generation is willing to share their experience online because they feel that it holds companies accountable for their actions, says our guest.
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Looking for a job or trying to nail it at your current one? Host Tiffany Ang and career counsellor Gerald Tan help navigate your important - and sometimes thorny - work life questions.
Jump to these key moments:
- 2:57 What is driving Gen Zs?
- 7:33 Do Singaporean employers appreciate this?
- 9:47 Make friends, not enemies
- 13:39 How companies can better manage them
- 20:30 Should companies retaliate?
- 27:40 AMA: Career coach or therapist?
More Gen Z workers are making public videos of themselves getting fired or resigning, inspiring a phenomenon called Quit Tok. What's driving them and how can companies better manage a younger generation that thrives on authenticity?
Rachele Focardi, founder and CEO of XYZ@Work, shares her findings.
(They want) transparency and authenticity. So going out on social media, posting their experience ... really aligns with their desire to be genuine and open about what they face and let the world see them for ... who they are.
(Gen Zs) have a lot of pressure to make things right. They really feel that the older generations have failed them and have failed to provide a world where they can be proud to live ... and they find the world right now way too segregated.
(Employers) need to have empathy and to have the ability to not take things personally ... they need to start to realise that they're not working with resources, they're working with people.
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