In fact, nearly three-quarters of the young workers said they’re completely comfortable giving upward feedback to their supervisors. This jumps to 90% when it comes to dishing out criticism of their peers – and around the same percentage of respondents said they are comfortable with discussing their job satisfaction (or lack thereof) at work.

What’s more, the majority of respondents also said they didn’t mind talking about historically taboo topics like money, with nearly eight in 10 revealing that they are comfortable with talking about their wages.

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Long gone are the days of working 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. for one employer. Instead, Gen Z workers would rather work from 6 p.m. onwards and take on multiple contract gigs to cater work around their lifestyle. At the same time, they want stress free jobs with little responsibility, calling time on hustle culture.

Even the office chat is evolving to cater to young workers, with phrases like “menty b” and “cozzie livs” becoming ever more present in water-cooler conversations.

Although, it’s easy to write off the looming threat of a complete overhaul to workplace tradition while Gen Z still represents a relatively small minority group.

Ignoring these slow but steady changes to company culture could be a huge oversight, after all, Gen Z will make up 25% of the workforce by 2025.

- Gen Z workers aren’t afraid to broadcast their salary – or tell their boss what they think of them – new research shows, Fortune.com, October 3, 2023.

3. It has been quite the week for women closely associated with Donald Trump. While one gave testimony in a New York courthouse detailing how she allegedly spanked the former US president with a rolled-up magazine in a penthouse suite, another was booed in Congress as she tried – and failed – to oust the speaker of the House. (Yet another was forced to continue to defend killing her dog with a shotgun.)

The booee, and the focus of this column, was Marjorie Taylor Greene, the CrossFit-coach-turned-conspiracy-theorising-congresswoman from Georgia otherwise known as “MTG”. Just ten fellow Republicans backed her “motion to vacate” Mike Johnson from the speakership, a humiliating defeat.

“Moscow Marjorie has clearly gone off the deep end – maybe the result of a space laser,” one congressman told reporters. (The laser is a reference to Greene’s suggestion that California’s 2018 wildfires might have been caused by “space lasers” funded by the Rothschilds; “Moscow Marjorie” alludes to her opposition to military aid for Ukraine.) “Most of us, by the time we turn 12 years old, figure out that tantrums don’t actually work and apparently, not everybody in Congress has got the memo,” said another. “She’s uninformed, she is a total waste of time,” said a senior senator.

- Is Marjorie Taylor Greene too Maga for Trump? FT.com, May 12 2024.

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