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.

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    11 months ago

    All I need them to understand is to pay me a fair wage and don’t fucking talk to me on my days off and just let me do my job.

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      11 months ago

      don’t forget hiring more people when the workload increases instead of just dropping it on an already overburdened team and then get shocked when they just quit

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        11 months ago

        Better yet, hire more before the workload increases so you aren’t training newbies during crunch time.