![]() And if you really dig into it too, it wasn’t just like it’s not just quiet quitting. It was a full blown media sensation driven by early 20 somethings So what made us realize holy shit, look at what Gen Z just did with quiet quitting. Those things already happen like after everyone already knows and agrees there’s a problem. I think legal changes is, while important, that’s a lagging indicator. I’m saying, and one of the arguments I got into this week too, is more social pressure and awareness thanĪctual legal changes. It’s just- when it becomes part of the discussion that everyone seems to be having, it affects how people can hire and retain employees. So we thought more about okay, what causes these shifts?Īnd I guess my central thesis is it’s people talking about it. So I’d like to say that’s every company, but it’s clearly not. The customer’s getting some real value out of it. Crazy right? The company actually makes money. The new definition now is stuff that actually matters like quantifiable high employee engagement, long tenure, low turnover, pay compensation being at or above market,Įverybody being more or less happy with their work life balance. Like the whole thing that we’ve ripped on with like the ping pong tables and beanbag chairs and video games, like that became a little bit synonymous with “good company”. You could definitely- you can manipulate Glassdoor a little bit to make it look like you were great. Good company then got a little smoke in mirror Z. Then you had the shift into the internet age maybe 10, 15 years ago. So people were getting away with some pretty bad stuff. But all of that was kind of, as we now know, completely right for exploitation. But- that’s of a “good company” is what we’re defining here- of a good company. The goal was make enough money, buy a home, get a car, take the family to Disney world a couple times. So maybe think post industrial revolution through eighties, nineties, like pre-internet stuff. Jeff, if you want to maybe define the terms for us here? Yeah. And then talking it over, we kind of stumbled across how Gen Z is kind of changing the game in a few of these situations, which we’ll come back to, stay with us. Like as much as we’re progressing or it seems like we’re progressing for the last like couple decades, like it’s still here, right? Yeah. These are all things that weren’t, that are a bigger deal now than they were then, right? But we still hear tons of horror stories from candidates we talk to coming out of micromanaged environments that deal with unethical hiring practices, inappropriate workplace behavior of every conceivable variety, which made us wonder does this shit ever go away? A lot of things that are top of mind now pay transparency, diversity, inclusion, work life balance. So if you’re on LinkedIn and you just follow the trends are happening in workplace culture, however you might do that, you kind of pay attention to these types of things. Originally what we wanted to discuss was, do bad companies ever really go away? So this is actually not a topic that was on our radar or something we thought we’d talk about. This week’s topic, episode 51: will Gen Z kill bad companies? It’s the- it came out of a completely separate conversation and boy, am I excited for it? Yeah. Before we dig in, all our content can be found on. The 10 Minute Talent Rant is our ongoing series where we break down things that are broken in the talent acquisition and hiring space, maybe even pitch a solution or two- not this week. I’m James Hornick joined by Jeff Smith and we are on the clock. ![]()
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