Research has found more than half of British young professionals do not want to take on a middle-management position. And who can blame them? Never he

Conscious unbossing: why gen Z are refusing to become managers

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2024-09-25 21:30:06

Research has found more than half of British young professionals do not want to take on a middle-management position. And who can blame them?

Never heard of it. What does it even mean? Is Chris Martin going to be the drummer in Coldplay? Eh? Oh I see – because of his and Gwyneth’s “conscious uncoupling”. That may be where the phrase came from, but this is different.

Is it to do with Keir Starmer trying to get everyone back to work again, because we love our country? Again, no. I mean, that is a thing, just not this thing.

Aw, bless, they might have to make a decisiony-wision … Oi, less of the ageism. It’s more about not wanting to tell underlings what to do.

Don’t tell me, there was a survey. There was a survey, by the recruitment company Robert Walters. It found that 52% of UK gen Z professionals did not want to take on a middle-management position in their career.

What about the money? Don’t they want a raise? The raise isn’t big enough: 69% said mid-level management was “too high stress, low reward”. To be fair, in another recent survey, 75% of middle managers said they felt “overwhelmed, stressed or burnt out”.