Multigenerational Workplace: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

4 HELPING GEN Z EMPLOYEES FIND THEIR PLACE AT WORK

by Jenny Fernandez, Julie Lee, and Kathryn Landis

Gen Z, born approximately between 1995 and 2010, is the most racially and ethnically diverse generation in U.S. history. This generation has also been influenced by, and is influential in, the macro social movements and systemic issues that have shaped who they are and what they stand for in the workplace and society. They’ve played crucial roles in movements fighting racism and discrimination, sexual harassment, gun violence, and worsening climate change, as growing income disparity makes the possibility of social mobility more unrealistic than ever.

All of this was exacerbated by Covid-19. The pandemic devastated the U.S. economy and stopped ...