>On the flip side, out of the 7,500 Gen Z respondents, 66 percent said they valued self-care, recreation, leisure, and other forms of personal pleasure, but only 5 percent said they cared about fame or recognition - clear signs of the achievement that hiring managers are seeking in new employees.
>The disconnect is clear.
>Gen Z candidates care about work-life-balance while hiring managers want hard-workers.
>In response to the findings, one CEO said: 'This explains exactly why we can't hire.'
>A hospital executive said: 'We are now hiring two or three new docs to replace a retiring one. They tell us we should not be expecting them to work hard because life as a cardiologist isn't what it used to be.'
> 'I recently got fired from a workplace and one of their core complaints was how unprofessional I was. turns out their definition was "Checks phone for 5 minutes once an hour" lol,' someone chimed in.
>’I've been saying recently "back in your day? It's not your day anymore, it's supposed to be mine,"' another wrote.