GenZ treat employers like bad dates 93% ghost interviews 87% don't show for work

This is not a trait exclusive to Gen Z and I think the author of the article just wanted to be inflammatory, as they tend to do when pointing out these perceived generational differences.

The manufacturing industry I work in has a distinct lack of Gen Z applicants. Those that do apply tend to be 35+ and about half of them either don't show up for the interview or last about week and vanish. I work between three shops and there's a single Gen Z'er that I know of. He's someone's younger brother and seems temporary while he finishes school.

What none of these article authors seem to want to expose is how employers dug themselves into this situation by treating their workforce as a disposable commodity. If Gen Z is really ghosting as much as this article implies (for which I have seen zero evidence of in my Gen Z son and his friends, who all work) then I would question why Millennials and Gen X didn't do the same because let's face it; employers thinking we need them more than they need us is not a new problem by any stretch of the imagination.

Employers treat everyone like bad dates.

93% ghost interviewees, although I would say that the number that interview and have then started to lead on either myself or someone I know before ghosting is probably higher.

87% randomly terminate employees, not based upon performance.

Hopefully they are not surprised when they get treated with contempt, but apparently it's only about 30% on employers who recognise that they treat the workforce badly.

Posting jobs the company has no intention of filling should be considered felony fraud and prosecuted as such. It'll only take a couple of prosecutions before HR and hiring managers lose interest in playing that game. You don't even have to make the definition expansive; it can be narrowly focused, and most will still be unwilling to take the risk as whatever benefit they're currently receiving from it is magnitudes smaller than what they're stealing from candidates.

For those who think that's a bit excessive, consider the value of the cumulative time wasted by job applicants for positions that don't exist. If you embezzled that much money from your employer, it would be a felony. If an employer does it to job candidates, it's all honky-dory. It doesn't matter if the value to the employer was small, the value stolen was large.

I regularly see job postings for my position at rates that are 30-35% of what I earn. They don't disappear, I wonder if they are just harvesting personal data. In any case, I was once entertain the idea to apply just to see what kind of people they are and what conditions potential employees have to work under.

>job ghosting is rife,

Oh no!

>..with 75% of workers

Wow!

>..saying they’ve ignored a prospective employer in the past year.

Oh.. who cares.

Hopefully it doesn't change until employers start valuing the workforce less like a commodity.

Hope that the new generation Z won't become slaves to work like we millenials, gen X's and so on are.

Well, not so much slaves to work, but get so little leeway from corporations that own us. It's not like we like it.

We need a shift in our relationship with employers and they will help us.

The kids are alright

Well, start paying the check when the dinner bill comes!

I mean, when 99.999% of jobs I apply to ghost me and 95% ghost me after the first interview, what do you expect?

Newsflash: boomers treating everyone with complete contempt and disregard get feelings hurt when treated the way they treat others. Boo fucking hoo.

touché

Anyone who has looked for a job knows the feeling of going through an interview and then never hearing back from the company. It's fine when the company wastes your time, but never ok when you waste the company's time.