Around a third of Gen Z and millennials report low productivity, and it's their bosses' faults.

Starting a career has increasingly felt like a right of passage for Gen Z and Millennial workers struggling to adapt to the working week and stand out to their new bosses.

But it looks like those bosses aren’t doing much in return to help their young staffers adjust to corporate life, and it could be having major effects on their company’s output.

Research by the London School of Economics and Protiviti found that friction in the workplace was causing a worrying productivity chasm between bosses and their employees, and it was by far the worst for Gen Z and Millennial workers.

The survey of nearly 1,500 U.K. and U.S. office workers found that a quarter of employees self-reported low productivity in the workplace. More than a third of Gen Z employees reported low productivity, while 30% of Millennials described themselves as unproductive.

  • Aabbcc@lemm.ee
    2·
    10 months ago

    The survey of nearly 1,500 U.K. and U.S. office workers found that a quarter of employees self-reported low productivity in the workplace. More than a third of Gen Z employees reported low productivity, while 30% of Millennials described themselves as unproductive.

    Couldn’t this just mean gen x/boomers feel more productive? Doesn’t sound like it really speaks to the output of the employees

    • SwampYankee@mander.xyz
      51·
      10 months ago

      Millennials/Gen Z:

      • Uses computer to finish day’s tasks in 4 hours, browses internet for remaining 4.
      • “Wow, I feel like a useless piece of shit.”

      Boomers/Gen X:

      • Spends 2 hours reading every single email in full as if they are addressed specifically to them, getting angry that people are telling them useless information. Spends an hour printing & collating papers for the day’s tasks. Spends 5 hours doing the tasks because paper is less efficient. Stays 1 hour extra for scanning/data entry when the whole thing could have been done on the computer in the first place.
      • “Gee golly, I sure am swamped.”
    • meathorse@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 months ago

      Definitely.

      I suspect many genx/boomers don’t feel productive either - BS jobs don’t discriminate - but they have probably seen enough layoffs to know when they need to appear busy - when a reporter asks is one of those times…