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A. OnestoThe New Employee Contracthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8054-6_5

5. What Makes a 21st-Century Job?

Anthony Onesto1  
(1)
Staten Island, NY, USA
 

Human psychology may have remained the same for thousands of years, but as we’ve learned, the conditions that shape generations are continually changing. So, in just talking about Gen Z here, we need to keep in mind some essential things about how they want to work and how that should inform the shape of the kind of jobs offered to them to better recruit and retain them at your place of business.

For starters, and as we have now firmly established, a 20th-century job with a rigorous, unchanging pre-designed ...

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