I am an Xer who manages a small but crucial team at my workplace (in an EU country). I had a lady resign last week, and I have another who may be about to resign or I may have to let go due to low engagement. They are both Gen Z. Today it hit me: the five years I’ve been managing this department, the only people I’ve lost have been from Gen Z. Clearly I do not know how to manage Gen Z so that they are happy working here. What can I do? I want them to be as happy as my Millennial team members. One detail that might matter is that my team is spread over three European cities.
Happy to provide any clarification if anyone wants it.
Edit. Thanks for all the answers even if a few of them are difficult to hear (and a few were oddly angry?) This has been very helpful for me, much more so than it probably would have been at the Old Place.
Also the second lady I mentioned who might quit or I might have to let go? She quit the day after I posted this giving a week’s notice yesterday. My team is fully supportive, but it’s going to be a rough couple of months.
Up/down votes are just a system for suggesting other people read the post. Nothing more. Should it get more visibility?
Well that’s a side effect, I can’t agree with you though that that’s the only reason, as I know that’s not how people use it.
They use it to either agree or disagree to what’s being said, or to show their approval/disapproval of how the comment was written, that it was with written well or not, even if they disagree with what was being said.
That might be how people use it, but it’s not what it does. It just controls visibility
Understood, but when you’re describing it’s just a technical mechanics of it. What I’m speaking towards is why the button was pushed in the first place.
Do people actually want echo chambers or is it the effect they create by using it funny?
I have no idea, you would have to ask them. But my point is an approval or disapproval switch can be pushed for multiple reasons, from logical, to emotional.