Why your Gen Z employees are unhappy—and what you can do about it

It’s easy for leaders to brand Gen Z workers as entitled. But it’s worth moving past lazy tropes to understand what this generation is actually asking for.

Gen Z workers have been branded as demanding, unmotivated, and even entitled—a word that was used not too long ago to describe millennials. In an Intelligent.com survey last fall, 60% of employers said they had fired Gen Z workers not long after hiring them, and one in six managers said they were hesitant to hire recent college graduates.