This gap of natural development in worker identity and personal networks is a driving factor, experts suspect, in why Gen Z would want to spend at least some time in the office. And when broken down by race, more than 40% of those who did were white. “But on the other hand, of course, they don't have the networks, they don't have the experience and the mentoring.” And while all workers appreciate opportunities for socialising, says Lund, younger workers may especially need them while growing into their careers.įindings from a recent study from US-based Springtide Research on Gen Z’s thoughts on the future of work chime with this: fewer than half of those surveyed said they felt they had a work mentor. “On one hand, they’re what we call the ‘digital natives’ – they're more technologically adept,” says Lund. Young workers have conflicting interests, says Susan Lund, partner at McKinsey & Company, and a leader of the McKinsey Global Institute. While older generations grapple with the return to office in different ways, more than any other group, these younger workers see the upside in hybrid set-ups. While other workers do want to hybrid set-ups – 44% of 30-to-49-year-olds, and 38% of workers 50 and older – Gen Z most wants a foot in each world.
Of this group, 48% said they’d prefer hybrid work. A recent McKinsey & Company study on workers’ hopes for the future shows that 18-to-29-year-olds are most interested in a hybrid work set-up, working two to three days a week from home, and the rest in an office. Instead, they’re the group most eager to land squarely in the middle. But, at the same time, data shows they’re not entirely keen to take to desks daily. This isn’t wholly surprising among many reasons, Gen Z have missed out on some of the early career-advancement opportunities, while being stuck at home during the pandemic. However, as some workers push to stay entirely remote for good, Gen Z is not leading the charge – instead, they’re among those looking forward to a return to the office. Working from home – or other far-flung locales – seems a natural fit for this group. They’re digital natives who seamlessly understand new productivity tools it’s natural for younger workers, say, to communicate via DMs or video chat, technologies that some older groups have had to catch up to learn. On one hand, of the groups that seem most primed to work remotely indefinitely, Gen Z leads the pack. The youngest employees in the workforce are being pulled in two different directions.
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