Professor Bobby Duffy

So people are getting married eight years later, having kids four years later than 20, 30 years ago.

And all of those changes are just slowing down the development of younger people.

So the death of the Saturday job is a real thing.

Half of older millennials had a Saturday job and

It's a quarter of older Gen Z had a Saturday job.

We've just seen this collapse in it for all sorts of reasons.

And that just gives a bit less exposure to the workplace.

So when Gen Z are coming into the workplace or going to university, they've got a little bit less of that real life experience.

That does have an effect on how fast people are growing up, how independent they are, etc.,

I mean, I do have a take on that, though, because it is and it's a kind of personal one from just looking at my family where my mum left school at 15, went to work in a factory full time at 15.

And then that was more or less.

her career.

By the time I was 17, I'd had like 12, 15 terrible jobs, lots that I probably shouldn't have done, dodgy temp agency type work that I shouldn't have been doing and boots and Sainsbury's and all those types of things.

My daughter at 17, the only commercial thing that she's ever done is selling stuff on Depop and Vinted and it's stuff that we bought her

And we do all the admin for her.

And when I say that to people, it's kind of like, obviously, it's slightly at my daughter's expense.

But it's more to point out to people that we think that the way we grew up just happened to hit upon the right speed of development for young people.

I think we'd all agree, my mum leaving school and working full-time at 15...

is not a model that we would support.

We've got a slight sense of, are we mollycoddling this young generation because we're not asking them to do as much?