Vicky Spratt

Yeah.

So monk mode, especially among young men, to be honest, would be kind of them realizing that they're not focused enough maybe.

And they would use the term monk mode because it's kind of a manosphere term.

And I think that's where the kind of the nihilism comes in.

Young people are not looking for like Amazon warehouse jobs, long hours, a lack of progression.

Because one of the things that we found in our report was this quitting culture.

And it's really interesting because on the surface level, it seems like quite a negative thing about the young people.

But the reason a lot of young people are quitting jobs after a very short period of time is because of exactly what you described.

They don't see a future in their roles.

So we did realise they're quitting culture.

And on the surface, it might seem like a negative thing.

And it's probably the most damning thing about Gen Z in this report that we've kind of outlined.

Because the majority of the problems that we kind of see are more structural.

But specifically on quitting culture...

We were speaking to a young woman, for example, in Cardiff and she had been at home for three years doing nothing.

She was a care leaver and she received income from the Welsh government because she was a care leaver and she was staying at home.

And finally she started to kind of try to get into employment.

And what she detailed was like leaving loads of different roles.

But when you asked her about every single specific role, it seemed like she had quite a good reason to.

She was leaving cleaning jobs because they weren't paying her properly when they were expecting her to do longer hours.