Half of millennials and 75%
of Gen Zers have left their job
for mental health reasons
CNBC,
by
Todd Wasserman
Original Article
Posted By: M2,
10/11/2019 11:07:25 AM
Cases of burnout have been increasing at an alarming rate in recent years among millennials and Gen Zers. It’s a growing problem in today’s workplace because of trends like rising workloads, limited staff and resources and long hours.
It’s no surprise, then, that a recent study by Mind Share Partners, Qualtrics and SAP reveals that half of millennials and 75% of Gen Zers have left a job for mental health reasons.
The study, which looked at mental-health challenges and stigmas in the U.S. workplace, polled 1,500 respondents ages 16 and older working full-time. Another recent study, by the American Psychological Association, found the percentage of young adults experiencing certain
Awwwwww.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
stablemoney 10/11/2019 11:16:31 AM (No. 204359)
This article is a blatant made up lie. I think the author is the one suffering from mental breakdown.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 10/11/2019 11:36:41 AM (No. 204375)
They are working the same jobs as everyone else. We used to be more honest and just say we left for more pay.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
PIApilot 10/11/2019 11:38:56 AM (No. 204378)
If you have never been taught how to deal with adversity you have no idea how to deal with external stressors. The sad part is that businesses are saddled with having to figure out how to train these people how to work with stress in the same way that they had to train people how to use computers 30 years ago. The sad part is that it's easy to train someone how to use a computer. It's hard to reshape how someone's brain is wired from their childhood.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
valinva 10/11/2019 11:43:30 AM (No. 204384)
Working was cutting into my hanging out at the coffee shop time. It was a drag. They wouldn't let me choose what I wanted to do and made me do stuff that was boring and hard.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
jacksin5 10/11/2019 11:53:38 AM (No. 204395)
What jobs holders did they survey? Cubicle dwellers or Tradeworkers?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/11/2019 12:08:57 PM (No. 204415)
I don’t believe a word of this. The “millenials” I know - and I know a lot of them in a state that we are told is really, really an awful place to live - are working at various jobs (not flipping burgers). They are raising families. Doing all the normal stuff - including the struggles - that most of us did. Some have had college; some not. They keep on going the way their parents and grandparents and those before them did.
We are getting more and more negative media reporting, all supposed to show that the American People Are In Trouble. Especially our young people, our future. Insidious stuff.
I say Rubbish.
Fake news. Scare tactics. Psychological political warfare. Rotten business, CNBC. And they are preying on our young.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
NYbob 10/11/2019 12:15:54 PM (No. 204423)
CNBC did not talk to my kids. They would not dare. It would not fit their crapaganda agenda.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
A.I. 10/11/2019 12:16:42 PM (No. 204425)
Is it because of how these kids were raised by their parents or because of how the school system treated them In class? There’s too much emphasis on self-esteem.
They found out in the real world that they don’t get participation trophies just by being present at work.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
AltaD 10/11/2019 12:19:35 PM (No. 204430)
Unless I missed it, this article does not explain how the survey was conducted. Was it a phone survey and if so, how did they find anyone who would answer an unknown number? Either your phone automatically blocks those calls or you see it's unknown and hit the ignore/delete.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bad-hair 10/11/2019 12:19:53 PM (No. 204431)
Statistics … The shortest distance between an unwarranted assumption and a foregone conclusion.
CNBC Playing as usual to conventional "wisdom" for ratings.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Philipsonh 10/11/2019 12:31:28 PM (No. 204447)
Absolute nonsense and fake news.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
MattMusson 10/11/2019 12:48:39 PM (No. 204473)
We just quit because we hated our jobs. Not for 'mental health' reasons.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 10/11/2019 12:52:21 PM (No. 204483)
I doubt this has any connection to reality.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
comstock 10/11/2019 3:37:34 PM (No. 204668)
FTA:
He traces a progression from the mid-1950s in which society has gradually taken away children's internal locus of control (someone with an internal locus of control is likely to believe that both successes and failures are due to their own efforts).
As a result, many young people today are lost. "Since the mid-1950s, when they began taking away children's play, people haven't learned to take control of their own lives." Gray said that control is essential to ward off excessive anxiety.
If these snowflakes don't believe that both successes and failures are due to their own efforts then they believe it is always someone else's fault. So their response is to quit... run away and think the next time will be better. The longer they embrace this mindset the more miserable they will be.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 10/11/2019 3:41:52 PM (No. 204675)
Send them to fight with ISIS...
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 10/11/2019 3:58:01 PM (No. 204681)
Have you worked with any of these little buggers? I'm an IT Program Manager and I can't believe this group of entitled slow witted unfunny group of losers! All the men are 5 feet tall maximum and would have spent many an hour with head shoved in toilet in my High School. But now...they are ALL like this! I refuse to meet with a woman of any age anymore in a conference room with the door closed. I prefer the cafeteria or a large room with multiple doors open at all times if I must.
This group has little to no work ethic. We in management are there to make them feel good about themselves and HOW DARE you ask one of these special little darlings why they missed something or messed up!
People want to be led, not managed. Or, let's say my generation did. This group wants to be managed and view leadership as an insult to their sensitive selves. I won't work with them anymore. When hiring, their resumes go to the bottom of the pile and any interviews that I'm forced to conduct are strictly business with no personal care given. Yea, we are all old farts. But good luck when the cobol code and all the hundreds of legacy applications interfaced to make your business run break. You are going to pay us millions to come in and fix it. Your millennial friends can't help you and your only other option is to bring in Accenture to "code with PowerPoint" until they have billed you to death and you kick them out with no answers! Good Luck! (From a jaded IT person who was never appreciated by business lines but is now sitting in the catbird seat waiting for the canary to jump and fall into my mouth)!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
MickTurn 10/11/2019 5:56:52 PM (No. 204849)
I've worked with a bunch of Menlenneliars...self absorbed, peeved they don't get trophy's in life for trying, mad at the world because mommy and daddy cut them off, etc...get a clue bozo's, life is tuff, then you DIE!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
watashiyo 10/11/2019 6:39:27 PM (No. 204891)
I'd like to know the statistics between men and women, .....forget the numbers on transgenders and the queers. I'm thinking it's mostly boys who are whimpering out.
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Millennials have not been taught a work ethic and their lives are too damn cushy. They don't know that work is a discipline, a word with which too many are unfamiliar. They complain about stress but they're creating their own stress by being aimless, lazy, undisciplined, and uneducated. They don't know stress. They are annoyed and think it's stress. Sorry if that sounds harsh, but tough.