A future-of-work expert said Gen Zers didn’t have the “promise of stability” at work, so they’re putting their personal lives and well-being first.

  • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    You get what you pay for, pay your employees shit and get shit. Completely remove all rewards for hard work and no ones going to be incentivized to do more than the bare minnimum.

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      11 months ago

      At the last big boy firm I worked at, they set the metrics for getting a bonus so unrealistically high that it disincentived staff from even trying. It had a negative effect where everybody purposely did just enough to not get fired rather than killing themselves to come up short and get nothing.

      They wanted something stupid like 2,500 billable hours which do not include meetings, continuing education, mandatory volunteer time, etc etc etc.

      The biggest rock stars in the industry struggle to hit 2,000.

      So we all dropped down to the 1,500 range because fuck that shit.

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        11 months ago

        2500 / 40 = 62.5

        They expected you to work an additional 10.5 weeks, and didn’t count half your duties? No wonder you guys didn’t even try.

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        11 months ago

        What was their reaction the next period? Did they lower the goal or double down and keep it high?

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      11 months ago

      It’s shocking how much bare minimum work happens, or how much tossing over the fence and “yeah we’re aware we’ll fix it later” style approaches happen at my job. We can’t hire the right level of expertise because we won’t pay for it. I’ve got a foot out the door and it really doesn’t matter where I go because it will be a raise for the same stupid kind of environment, but at least it’ll be a raise.