Exclusive | Gen Z Aren’t Lazy, NYC Young Professionals Claim – They Say They’re ‘More Creative’ Than Boomers, Gen Xers

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NYC’s young professionals are saying “get out of town!” in a new study that calls Gen Z employees “lazy”.

The workplace survey, conducted by Intelligent.com, found widespread reluctance on the part of managers to bring on recent college graduates, citing concerns about their work ethic, communication skills and job readiness. .

Many Gen Z workers, the findings say, are fired just months after starting a job.

The news is just the latest in a long line of complaints about working for the age group – from their style in the office to the “inappropriate” use of slang in professional settings.

Locals quickly hit back at the depressing news — saying their generation has a great work ethic — while pointing out that they obviously have different work styles that prioritize work-life balance.

“The argument that we’re lazy is wildly misconstrued,” Erica Burkett, 27, told The Post. “We’re just not going to be used to the workforce that’s existed for the last 50 years.”

Instead, Burkett, who works as a freelance graphic designer, said her group is “bursting out of the whole system.”

“We’re not tying our whole lives to a corporate job that doesn’t care if we live or die,” she said. “We’re moving away from that mindset.”

Burkett said she and her fellow Gen Zers are “extremely hard workers” who always “get it done.”

“I would argue that we are much more creative,” she added. “So we’re going to find different ways to have the result instead of the traditional way.”

Indeed, technology and remote work have drastically changed how and what the workplace looks like, which has affected the responsibilities and expectations of Gen Z’s work.

“The way our parents used to work and the way they had to strive to achieve the life they wanted is very different now,” Florencia Comparini, 27, told The Post. “Now you can sit at home and work on a computer and make billions of dollars.”

And sometimes, older generations just don’t get it – especially when they don’t even understand what jobs like social media managers involve.

“There are many more opportunities for different jobs. And the older generations don’t understand the kind of new, emerging jobs that are happening,” said Comparini, a senior media analyst. “There’s a divide.”

Despite new job titles and responsibilities, Gen Z thinks it’s unfair to categorize an entire generation — 69.31 million people in the U.S. — as unemployed.

“Gen Z has a bad rep, and I think you’re going to get that with every generation. You’re going to have people who work really hard and people who don’t work very hard,” Nicole Hegert, a 26-year-old packaging engineer, told The Post. “It trickles down, like every generation.”

Ryan Perry, a 23-year-old investment banker, said he believes a person’s work ethic has more to do with how you were raised.

“It really depends on the person. I don’t know if it necessarily has to do with the generation you are.”

“You have lazy people from every generation,” Khelbert Ehresmann, 22, a credit risk manager told The Post.

He agrees that some in his generation have distorted things that might make older people uncomfortable, including the way they dress and speak at work, but he doesn’t believe that’s a reflection of their work ethic. .

After all, he noted, doesn’t every generation rate itself as better than the younger generation?

“When we’re 40 or 50 years old, we’ll be saying the same thing to our children’s generation,” he said. “It’s just a constant cycle.”