Older employees prefer working from home while Gen Z, millennials want to return to office: Expert

FOXBusiness
By Stephanie Giang-Paunon
September 13, 2021

Many work­ers are prepar­ing to head back to the office for the first time since the start of the pan­dem­ic; with the con­tin­u­ing surge of the delta vari­ant, how­ev­er, employ­ees are ques­tion­ing how long cer­tain work poli­cies will last.

CEO and co-founder of the online career plat­form, The Muse, Kathryn Min­shew joined FOX Busi­ness’ “Morn­ings with Maria” to weigh in on the debate between remain­ing remote and return­ing to in-per­son work setups. Min­shew sug­gest­ed a worker’s age impacts an employee’s work envi­ron­ment pref­er­ences, not­ing a dis­par­i­ty between younger and old­er generations.

The fur­ther along some­one is in their career, the more like­ly they are to have a bet­ter work-from-home setup…They’re less like­ly to crave that in-office envi­ron­ment,” Min­shew said.

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Where­as a lot of the younger work­ers are, par­tic­u­lar­ly Gen Z and ear­ly career mil­len­ni­als, many of them are still start­ing out. They still feel like they need to estab­lish them­selves, build those con­nec­tions and mentorship.”

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