Generation Z: Young workers are changing today’s workforce

MOSES LAKE — Generation Z employees are a completely different entity from other generations when it comes to the workforce. Division Executive of System Advancement Kevin Williams, with the Spokane Workforce Council, and North Central Educational Service District Director of STEM Initiatives & Strategic Partnerships Sue Kane both said that Gen Z individuals have very different priorities than other age groups. “I think employers, in order to be successful with Gen Z, they have to be flexible and adaptable to that because this workforce is not our father’s workforce,” Williams said. “What drives them is different than what we thought of, not things like pensions and some of the other benefits that kind of drove people into specific work – not to say those aren’t important even to young adults, to some Gen Z.”