What a ridiculous article. In-person jobs exist. Plenty of employers are forcing employees to return to the office, and job seekers are abandoning them like mice off a sinking ship. If anyone, Gen Z or otherwise, wanted to work in an office, they could. Remote work from home gives employees greater flexibility and control over their own work/life balance. It is objectively better for the employee, and now that we have it, nobody wants to give it back.
Gen Z is lonely because they have no dislosable income and we’re still reeling from a poorly managed pandemic. If wages go up, and rent comes down, people will be a lot less lonely.
"Nearly one in four people worldwide — which translates into more than a billion people — feel very or fairly lonely, according to a recent Meta-Gallup survey of more than 140 countries.”
“Notably, these numbers could be even higher. The survey represents approximately 77% of the world’s adults because it was not asked in the second-most populous country in the world, China.”
This article reads like some CEO association paid a tabloid journalist to write propaganda about how wonderful on-site work is. Any longer and the article would seem almost … desperate.
My company is 100% remote. We have boomers, gen Xers, millennials, and gen Zers. We’ve had conversations individually and as a group and no one wants to change from remote to in office.
The problem the article is describing is a social problem with our society, and the answer has nothing to do with where you work. It’s more about how much you work, how much you get paid, and what you can do with your free time to carve out a balanced life.
Return-to-office doesn’t fix that because it just eats into off-the-clock time you commit to work for commuting.if anything, it exacerbates the problem.
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