#014 - Overemployment, Gen Z Won't Lead and the Silence at Work

Three things are happening at the same time in the job market — and nobody is saying they are the same thing.People are working two, three, five jobs simultaneously without any employer knowing. The generation that will inherit organizations is looking at senior leadership roles and deciding they don't want them. And the people who carry the most important information inside companies are staying quiet — for very rational reasons.In this episode we discuss these three phenomena and the pattern nobody is naming: the contract between people and institutions is being rewritten in silence.In this episode you will understand why 430,000 people openly share how to hold two full-time jobs without either company knowing — and what that reveals about how work was designed. You will understand why only 6% of Gen Z aspires to senior leadership roles, according to Deloitte research, and what happens to the leadership pipeline when the next generation refuses the baton. And you will understand why organizational silence is not a lack of courage — it is calculation. And what changes that calculation is not a communication workshop.Sources: Fortune (Jul 2025) — fortune.com | Ogletree (Apr 2026) — ogletree.com | Fortune (Apr 12 2026) — fortune.com | DDI/Deloitte | Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology (Mar 2026) — wiley.com | Frontiers in Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Feb 2026) — frontiersin.org