Alison Cheperdak

And there's a book called Generations that came out a while ago, but I really loved it.

It explains so well the distinction between like,

Gen Z and Gen Alpha, if something happens at work, they are more likely to report it to a supervisor rather than going to that person that they are uncomfortable with to actually talk about it to resolve.

They're more comfortable bringing in a third party or like some might call it tattling, but they're more comfortable reporting than like addressing it themselves.

Which I find very interesting.

And I think part of being online all the time is

People think, well, it's just efficient.

I can message them so easily rather than picking up the phone.

And I also want to acknowledge that

The youngest people in the workforce, they came of age during COVID.

And so many of them were in college during COVID or they were starting their careers during COVID.

And there's so much that you learn outside of structured time in the office.

And I'm not saying we all need to be in the office from 9 to 6, Monday through Friday, every single day.

But if you only were interacting with your colleagues on a Zoom call...

and you're following an agenda, you're missing out on so much.

Like there's so much interpersonal dynamics and like things about power and politics that you learn.

And I'm not talking about like politics and government, but just how an organization functions, being in an elevator, going to lunch, seeing someone in a break room, having just that regular chit chat.

And

Many of our youngest workers didn't experience that.

They didn't see how people were dressing for the office.