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Starting a career has increasingly felt like a right of passage for Gen Z and Millennial workers struggling to adapt to the working week and stand out to their new bosses.

But it looks like those bosses aren’t doing much in return to help their young staffers adjust to corporate life, and it could be having major effects on their company’s output.

Research by the London School of Economics and Protiviti found that friction in the workplace was causing a worrying productivity chasm between bosses and their employees, and it was by far the worst for Gen Z and Millennial workers.

The survey of nearly 1,500 U.K. and U.S. office workers found that a quarter of employees self-reported low productivity in the workplace. More than a third of Gen Z employees reported low productivity, while 30% of Millennials described themselves as unproductive.

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[–] VelvetStorm@lemmy.world 68 points 9 months ago (2 children)

All I need them to understand is to pay me a fair wage and don't fucking talk to me on my days off and just let me do my job.

[–] MagicShel@programming.dev 19 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Yes, but also some fucking healthcare so I can get medication for ADD is necessary. I felt like a horrible human being for twenty five years for having a terrible work ethic. And then I went on meds and suddenly I'm productive and motivated. Made me realize I'm not a shitstain on the drawers of humanity, just someone who needs help regulating brain chemistry and is capable of great things when I get that help.

That gives me great empathy when people are crying about laziness. I suppose some folks are lazy, but I wonder how many of them wouldn't be if they could get help.

I'm actually off meds right now for various reasons (job change and related insurance fuckery) and I can't wait to be able to resume them because I'm a tenth of the person I can and want to be.

[–] VelvetStorm@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Ya when I'm not on my meds I can't even function like an adult and it fucking sucks.

[–] kttnpunk@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Okay, as another person with adhd- THIS. but also maybe I shouldn't have to regulate my brain chemistry. What if we could just fucking be allowed to exist unproductively, what if we didn't have to take pharmaceutical grade meth to function normally? Why is that pressure there? Considered reasonable? Why is this acceptable? Gods it's unfair, and it makes me want to watch the world burn tbqh

[–] VelvetStorm@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I also have adhd and while I get where you are coming from and your experience may be different from mine but if I'm not on my meds I can't even keep up with my hobbies or have fun doing them. I love macro photography and I'm pretty good at it but if I'm not on my meds I just can't do it.

[–] kttnpunk@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah no dig at that, obviously these things should be available and destigmatized and while it's great these meds work for you- I was put on high-dose concerta against my consent as a teenager and suffered terrible side effects so I just wanted to explain my bias and offer these additional thoughts on this; it's not for everyone and it especially shouldn't be so quickly pushed as a solution when schoolchildren are disengaged or underperfoming. Moreover, consent is fucking important. I stayed up until 5am almost every night of 10th grade that shit was not normal or healthy.

[–] VelvetStorm@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

On 100% your experience and feelings on it are valid and real. I personally think if kids are underpreforming in school then they should just make school better and more engaging.

[–] aStonedSanta@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

Yeah. This was my realization about a year ago. Which prompted me to finally get tested. Apparently I am a pretty severe case too. I think she was very curious about a lot of aspects of my life and how they functioned. The answer was not good. Haven’t even attempted to date in 7 years a cause I can’t even function

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah same, and the whole song and dance with a shrink to get amph is just so disrespectful after everything

[–] EndHD@lemm.ee 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

don't forget hiring more people when the workload increases instead of just dropping it on an already overburdened team and then get shocked when they just quit

[–] blipcast@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

Better yet, hire more before the workload increases so you aren't training newbies during crunch time.