Uncertain, confused, unstable—just a couple of adjectives that describe how workers likely feel right now.
This is especially true for young workers—namely Gen Z and Gen Alpha—who’ve only ever known this whirlwind of a workplace and will, along with millennials, make up 80% of the labor market in advanced economies by 2034, according to the World Economic Forum.
The future of work will be the reality for these generations—but it doesn’t look too shiny, experts shared with HR Brew.
“There’s widespread anxiety,” Jon Carson, co-founder of the College Guidance Network that works with high school students and parents on college admissions, told HR Brew. “I heard about a parent whose kid, out of the blue, texted them, and said, ‘I’m really stressed. I don’t know how I’m going to live the kind of life that you’re living.’”