Feature interview: Why Gen Z sees work differently

Work hard and success will follow. It's the promise many generations grew up with. But Gen Z isn't buying it, not because they're lazy or entitled, but because they no longer believe the deal applies to them says journalist Emi Nietfeld. She knows that promise well. She went from homelessness to Harvard to Google by following the traditional path to success. For years, she was invited to speak at university campuses as proof that hard work pays off. But in a recent essay for The New York Times, she argues her story now feels like it belongs to another era. Young people, she says, aren't rejecting work, they're rejecting a bargain that no longer seems to exist. [picture id="4JKDE70_emi_jpeg" crop="16x10" layout="full"]