Gen Z researchers on young people's attitudes to work: “Not a good prognosis for employers’” Generation Z is increasingly absent due to illness. Three quarters of all employees say that Generation Z calls in sick even though they would actually be fit.
Psychologist Rüdiger Maas from the Institute for Generation Research in Augsburg has been studying this phenomenon for years. Mr. Maas: 'Younger people no longer identify themselves through work in the same way'