Category: gen z

Gen Z Workers Are Different; How to Include Them in Recognition Programs

With growing influence, Gen Z workers are becoming a more significant part of the workforce. However, they differ from Millennials, Generation X, and Body Boomers. They’re unique and come with their own set of diverse values. Organizations can design recognition programs, especially for Gen Z employees. Leaders should appeal to their youngest workers because they…


Three-Quarters of Americans Making Plans for Dealing With Impending Recession: Poll

More than three-quarters of American citizens are planning out steps to deal with a potential economic recession, results of the latest Bankrate poll show. While 69 percent of survey respondents were “worried” about the possibility of a recession before the end of 2023, 40 percent were “somewhat worried” about the possibility and 29 percent were…


Why Job Turnover Is So High for Gen Z and Millennials

Jonathan Haidt’s latest essay “Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid” in the Atlantic calls attention to concerns related to how Generation Z has been raised. According to Haidt (and previously fleshed out in his insightful book “The Coddling of the American Mind,” Gen Z members have received more structure and attention…


New Survey Shows Student Loans Have Delayed Wealth-Building for Gen Z and Millennial Borrowers

By Hanneh Bareham From Bankrate.com Roughly 60 percent of U.S. adults who have held student loan debt have put off making important financial decisions due to that debt, according to a new Bankrate survey. For Gen Z and millennial borrowers alone, that number rises to 70 percent. Student loans have prevented these borrowers from saving…


It’s Time for Gen Zs To Start Thinking About Retirement Investing

Retirement is important for everyone, but it’s even more crucial for those in Generation Z. Why? Because the earlier you start saving, the more money you’ll have to enjoy in your golden years. As Gen Zs are starting to enter the job market, they should be thinking about retirement investing now rather than a decade down the road….


Gen Zs, It’s Time to Start Retirement Investing with 5 Retirement Strategies

Retirement is important for everyone, but it’s even more crucial for those in Generation Z. Why? Because the earlier you start saving, the more money you’ll have to enjoy in your golden years. As Gen Zs are starting to enter the job market, they should be thinking about retirement investing now rather than a decade down the road….


Gen Z Says No to Work, Yes to Debt

Commentary Gen Zers are leaving the workplace in high numbers. At the very same time, they are falling deeper into debt. You’re undoubtedly familiar with “buy now, pay later” (BNPL), a type of short-term financing that allows a consumer to purchase something immediately and pay for it later. The BNPL model has soared in popularity in recent years,…


Don’t Be Bearish. The Inevitable End of Bad Advice

Commentary  “Don’t be bearish.” That was the message delivered by a “Wall Street Journal” article in August 2021, discussing the “new generation” of “financial media stars.” To wit: “As the U.S. retreated amid the pandemic to its couches, millions of would-be stock pickers—some flush with stimulus cash—fired up social-media and messaging apps and dove headlong into the…


Gen Z Won’t Rebel 

Commentary Generation Z is starting to enter adulthood, and there are signs in this pandemic age that has taken up a fair portion of their adolescence that things aren’t going so well.  Whatever course they take in that delicate transition out of youth, we may be sure that it will be quite different from what…


EpochTV Review: The Re-education of Today’s Youth

Commentary There is an old saying, courtesy of the French, that for decades held true in American politics. If you’re not a liberal when you’re 25, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative when you’re 35, you have no head. Distressingly, this phrase has become far less accurate in the last 10 to…