Some time ago, I was chatting with a few old friends over dinner, and when it came to the young people in the unit, we in our 60s felt quite unimpressed by the practices of many young people. A friend told me that there was a post-90s girl in his unit, and when the leader was not satisfied with a material she wrote, the child suddenly became very excited, tore off the material in front of the leader, and then slammed the door and left, leaving the leader in the office for a long time. Another friend at the table talked about a post-90s generation in his unit, saying that this child belongs to the kind of person who is very playful, and if the leader assigns him a task on weekends and holidays, he does not answer the phone and does not reply to WeChat, as if the world has evaporated. As soon as this remark was raised, all of us resonated, and felt that today's young people are completely different from when we first joined the work, and it can be said that these children are really "too individual", completely ignoring the rules in the workplace, and looking like "love whoever you love".
Actually, if you want me to say, is there such a phenomenon? There must be, but I don't think it's that serious. Needless to say, today's young people's attitudes towards the workplace have changed considerably compared to our generation. The most prominent manifestation of this change is that this generation is obviously more self-conscious than our generation, and is more reluctant to "settle" or even "not get used to" things that they are not used to. In the words of some young people on the Internet, it is to "rectify the workplace".
Why do young people want and dare to propose "rectifying the workplace"? In my opinion, there are several reasons:
First of all, in the context of an affluent society, a considerable number of young people, especially those born in large cities in developed regions, have significantly reduced the pressure to find jobs and earn a living. Objectively speaking, many of these young people are only children in the family, and their parents, that is, the income of our generation, is not low, so the financial burden on them is not too heavy, at least when buying a house, their parents will help pay a down payment, and they can also "justifiably" and appropriately "gnaw the old" in daily life, so they have a little confidence to say "no" to some "rules" in the traditional workplace. At the same time, it is precisely because they grew up in an affluent society that their consumption outlook is also very different from that of our generation. In many cases, they will be more rational and pragmatic than us when consuming, and they don't seem to have much interest in "high-end goods" that can especially show their value, but they feel comfortable with it, which is especially prominent for middle-class children in big cities. Take my children as an example, we husband and wife should belong to the high-income class in this society, but my children's daily consumption level is very low, a laptop is used for more than ten years, the mobile phone is never changed, and I don't buy a new dress for a few years. Sometimes we would urge her to buy a new dress, but she was not interested at all, and I wanted to buy her a mobile phone, but she sternly refused. The same goes for the laptop, which she still uses when she was in college, and she feels that the performance is a little poor, so she buys an accessory online and installs it herself. In other words, it seems that these children have really entered a kind of "low-desire society". If you think about it, for these children, the incentives that we used to use, such as increasing income, don't seem to work well for them, which makes them dare to express their attitude to things that they are not used to in the workplace.
Second, this generation of young people is generally more educated and has better access to information. It should be said that this generation of young people, especially those living in big cities, have a university degree much higher than our generation, and because these people are the aborigines of the Internet, especially the mobile Internet, even if they do not have a university education, their horizons are far broader than ours. For these young people, the "earnest teachings" of the older generation are actually more "clichés" in their eyes, and they know much more than us, which also makes their ideological understanding and values more diverse. As a result, they will make their own judgments about their previous workplace experience based on a broader perspective, such as the same job, and today's young people will compare the job with similar jobs in other places or even foreign companies to arrive at the criteria for judging the job. It should also be noted that due to the improvement of today's young people's education level, they will have more in-depth thinking about the meaning and value of work than the older generation, and will also put forward new demands for individual rightsThe biggest motivation for "reorganizing the workplace".
Third, social progress has also encouraged young people to dare to say "no" to irrational phenomena in the workplace to a certain extent. As our generation gradually fades out of the workplace, the post-70s and even post-80s generations begin to become the backbone and even the leadership force in the workplace, these people are generally more educated than our generation, correspondingly, these workplace leaders will be more open-minded than our people to a large extent, or it is easier to establish a better communication and negotiation mechanism with today's young people. In this case, young people are also more willing and daring to reflect their own demands in an appropriate way, so as to reach a consensus with leaders and promote the healthy development of the workplace.
Fourth, it should also be noted that the current social employment pressure is very great, in fact, young people still cherish their careers very much, which leads to a certain degree of "involution" phenomenon in many units, young people want to "rectify the workplace", there is still a little rebellion and resistance to this "involution". At the same time, it also means that they want the unit and society to know that they are not not working hard, but want to strive for support and recognition in this way.
I think that as seniors in the workplace, we should be more understanding and tolerant of young people, and many times we should not treat these children with the working conditions and standards we had when we were young. After all, the times are advancing, to put it mildly, many of our young subordinates are younger than our own children, if the same requirements are put on our own children, we as elders can't bear it, then it is best not to criticize our subordinates, but to strive to create a democratic, inclusive, equal, harmonious and healthy workplace environment with these young people.
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