And in another worrying sign, 49% of business leaders and managers surveyed by ResumeBuilder said it’s hard to work with Gen Z all or most of the time.
In this regard, human development and leadership preparation expert Muhammad Thaer Abdel Halim said in an interview with Sky News Arabia: “The results of the study are awaited. This generation has spent most of their lives in a turbulent world. catastrophes the world had not witnessed before.”
A number of managers agreed that Gen Z employees lack communication skills, effort, motivation, and even technology skills, so much so that 20% of managers and business leaders surveyed said that ‘they had to “fire” a Gen Z employee within a week of starting the job. work. .
One of the main reasons why people of this generation are deprived of their jobs, according to the survey, is that they “feel very easily insulted, which makes working with them stressful”.
Thirty-four percent of respondents said they would prefer to work with Millennials, 30% with Gen X and 4% with Baby Boomers.
The report concluded that the Corona pandemic and distance learning could be among the reasons why this generation lacks certain basic skills in the workplace.
Abdel Halim concluded: “Studies show that what we see in today’s youth is present in all of us, the older generations. They do not have a common language that can communicate knowledge and messages to the younger generations, we must therefore develop the language of communication, whether in institutions or in relationships.” “.
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