Gen Z and politics in the workplace
We’ve previously written about a growing youthful, disillusioned & apathetic demographic. Here’s another side to that:
About half of Gen Zers said they wouldn’t even apply to a company where a CEO openly supported a political candidate they did not agree with.
“Polarization has been a long-term trend in American society, but I think increasingly that it’s seeping into the workplace,” said Aaron Terrazas, chief economist at Glassdoor. “For so long the workplace was one of the last cultural institutions where people of all different persuasions kind of could work toward a common goal, but that feels like it’s changed,” he said.
The politicisation of the work environment is something we drew our readers’ attention to in a 2019 newsletter when we wrote:
What organisations now face is a two-headed monster. A workforce that is less engaged with their job, yet has expectations about the sociopolitical positions their colleagues and employer take.
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