Marc Haine argues that chronic workplace underperformance is a management problem, not a generational one. Many managers go roughly 10 years without formal training, and stereotyping Generation Z misses the real issue.
And I'll speak in generalizations just because it's faster. Sure. Yeah. But I think if it's more than just a few employees who are underperforming, I think if it's chronic, if it's consistent, if it's happening at a larger scale, to me, that's management. It's very easy, in my opinion, very lazy to say, kids these days, this generation, Generation Z. Again, not that there isn't some truth to our observations. But we tend to add judgment, right? Like, we know for a fact that they want more flexibility, but often that's interpreted as, well, they're lazy and they're entitled and that kind of thing. And I think that we need to be careful with that, that, again, managers have always complained about employees. But I think the issue, as much as it's kids these days, it's management these days. The average manager works for 10 years in a management position before ever receiving any management training.
