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- Young workers are turning their backs on being managers, seeing no benefit to climbing the ladder.
- They would rather earn more at their current level, or wait it out and go for senior roles later on.
- The result may be that Gen Z largely kills off middle management roles for good.
When Wendy was promoted to a management position, she almost immediately regretted it.
While she had more freedom in her job as a graphic designer, she was also picking up a lot of slack due to several other positions being cut, and was doing way more work for no extra money.
Wendy, who is 28 and who isn't sharing her surname to keep her identity anonymous to her workplace, told Business Insider the apparent promotion was pitched to her as an opportunity. She agreed at the time, but now thinks she was naive about what she was really being offered.