As companies now require employees to return to the workplace, one group, Generation Z, is showing resistance. Last November, a story by The Business Insider found younger workers from “Gen-Z” are “depressed” they may have to work a regular 9-to-5 work schedule.
Some of the Gen-Z complaints included the following statements:
Piper Hansen just graduated from college last spring in 2023. She says her 9-to-5 schedule is already depressing, and she has only been at her new job for just a few months.
“How can I make sure I’m eating well, seeing my friends, and taking time for my hobbies?” said Hansen. “How am I supposed to fit my whole life into a 9-to-5 work schedule?”
Another Gen-Z complaint was from a worker who gets up at 7 a.m. for her 10-to-7 job and said by the time she gets home every night, she barely has time to walk her dog and make dinner.
A Gen-Z worker was filled with tears when she complained about having to work a 40-hour work week, “how people are supposed to make time for friends or to date.’ Said the young worker.
Other complaints from Gen-Z workers included:
“There’s only time to work and go home to rest before work starts again. That’s not how humans are supposed to live.”
“More flexible hours would be ideal so I could have more time “to travel or enjoy other things outside of work.”
“I don’t like my job. It takes up most of my life.”
“I wish there were more options for schedules that are conducive to actually having a life outside of work.”
“I don’t want my next 45 years to be the same as these last few months of going to work, coming home to eat dinner, rest, and then going back to work. I want to live my life, too.”
“I don’t know if a full-time, in-person job will be in my future.”
Job managers around the country have reported that the attitudes of Gen Z workers is more evidence of the weak work ethic and attitude of the younger American generation.
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