Managers should shield Gen Z employees from unnecessary bureaucracy and rigid office-hour expectations. Gen Z workers want clear expectations, autonomy, and flexibility on where and when they work. Offering flexible location and schedule options improves their engagement and productivity.
Protect Gen Z from unnecessary bureaucracy. Your job as a boss is when you see them getting frustrated by unnecessary bureaucracy, old company habits, politics, all that kind of stuff, like you need to insulate them from that stuff. In the end, they just want to know like what you really want them to do. And then they want the autonomy and freedom, especially if you can give them location and schedule to work wherever they want or travel around or whatever. A lot of them complain like, I don't understand why I have to be at the office at exactly 9 AM every morning. And the reason is, is because baby boomers like that. They beat it into us Gen X. And so, yeah, sorry, sorry, Gen Z.
