Home » Latest News » Bosses Are Firing Gen… Managers and business leaders are finding it difficult to work with Generation Z. A number of surveys and reports point out this trend, including an April 2023 survey of 1,000 participants from ResumeBuilder, which said that 74% of managers and business leaders found that Gen Z is more difficult to work with than other generations. In fact, 20% of respondents said they’d fired a Gen Z employee within a week of the start date — 27% had axed the new Gen Z employee within a month. Why don’t bosses like new college grads? Some bosses say that the group is unprepared for the workforce and can’t hack the workload. Others find that Gen Zers lack motivation and effort. Some bosses say that once on the job, Gen Z employees seem unprofessional. Whether these insights are true across the board, can Gen Z workers learn anything from these complaints? A more informal poll of managers, executives and HR leaders suggests that the perceptions may be shared o...
