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.
It’s hard to know what will pay off in the end. Someone might get a few early raises and peak. I’ve been getting steady raises with 1 company for almost 18 years. I started out making about $17/hr, and now I make more than most. As someone who won’t lie on my resume or try and overstate my involvement in a project, I don’t think I would have done as well jumping around. We’ve hired some of these people who job hop and I hate it. They have no skin in the game, never learned any hard lessons from seeing how something they implemented worked out long-term, so most of their stuff sucks, as they always have one foot out the door, but they think their farts smell like roses. Sorry… I’m a very tied of a lot of bull shit around this issue.
I think it works really well for some people, but personally I feel like you