Majority of young professionals reveal growing disillusion with mid-level management roles. Here's why.
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00:00Gen Zs are snubbing management roles. Here is why.
00:1052% of Gen Z professionals don't want to be middle managers.
00:15The main reason? For the majority of them, mid-management roles are not worth it,
00:21involving too much stress with marginal rewards.
00:25But reasons also include little decision-making power as well as limited personal growth.
00:33While 36% of Gen Zs know they might have, at some point, to take up a middle-management role,
00:41a further 16% are adamant they will avoid it altogether.
00:47Mid-managers are increasingly under pressure. 71% of them admit feeling overwhelmed, stressed or burnt out at work.
00:58They're also suffering from a higher growth rate of layoffs compared to staff and executives,
01:06with some of the most recent severances involving companies like Amazon, Meta and Google.
01:14Asked about how they plan to grow their career, 72% of Gen Zs say the best way is to focus on personal growth and skill accumulation,
01:26rather than taking on a management role.