The New Employee Contract: How to Find, Keep, and Elevate Gen Z Talent

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4. What the Hell Is a 20th-Century Job Anyway?

Anthony Onesto¹  

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Staten Island, NY, USA

 

Let’s get even more specific and separate 20th-century jobs from 21st-century jobs. For the latter, we are advocating for the creation of more of them to suit Gen Z’s needs. If the trends we’ve discussed in this chapter continue, 21st-century jobs are less likely to be impacted than their predecessor, the 20th-century job. But what’s a 20th-century job? Let’s start there.

If you watched The Irishman on Netflix, you got to see the perfect depiction of a 20th-century job played out in between ...