Employers Would Rather Hire AI Than Gen Z Graduates: Report
https://www.newsweek.com/employers-would-rather-hire-ai-then-gen-z-graduates-report-2019314
Employers Would Rather Hire AI Than Gen Z Graduates: Report
https://www.newsweek.com/employers-would-rather-hire-ai-then-gen-z-graduates-report-2019314
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From the article: A significant portion of employers revealed they’d rather hire artificial intelligence robots than bring a Gen Z graduate into the company, according to a new survey.
Roughly 37 percent of employers said they’d rather hire AI than a recent graduate, according to a new survey from Hult International Business School.
Gen Z, those born between 1997 and 2012, has been criticized harshly in recent years as they enter the workforce for the first time.
A prior Freedom Economy Index report conducted by PublicSquare and RedBalloon discovered that 68 percent of small business owners said Gen Zers were the “least reliable” of all their employees. And 71 percent said these younger workers were the most likely to have a workplace mental health issue.
Nearly 40 percent of employers said they’d rather hire a robot than a recent graduate, according to the Hult International Business School report released Tuesday.
The study interviewed 1,600 employers and full-time employers, and 96 percent of employers said most college educations aren’t preparing people at all for their jobs.
Altogether, 89 percent said they avoid hiring recent grads.
How many of these employers are boomers/Gen x and not millennials?
>GenZ are the least reliable employees
Maybe because… they just started?
And you KNOW these same people who want to replace GenZ are the same ones complaining that no one wants to work, kids live at home for too long, etc.
Makes you wonder why they focused on one specific group with this question. When, in fact, many employers would have this view across all the groups. GenX, myself..
Company would rather hire a robot they don’t have to pay over a human they do. Really riveting stuff there.
Don’t forget to watch open ais “operator” order groceries or book a trip, with a lot of hand holding.
The people making these predictions probably can’t use a pivot table.
I don’t think it depends on Generation Z itself (which is saddled with every possible evil), it’s a bit of a product of the times. AI costs less, has no timetables, and doesn’t claim rights. Sure, in an ideal world we would all discuss the consumption of products or services derived from AI, but this seems unlikely to be possible on a large scale. The idea of basic income, which will become reality sooner or later, will be dystopian in how it is implemented. Strange times
Great, is that AI in the room with us right now though ?
The money companies would save would also play a big part in this
if people don’t work, people can’t spend money on whatever these employers sell.
Stupid choice.
AI based services and robotized production of goods only make sense in a society where these AI and these robotized factories belong to the State, not to private people.
Then there can be a system to establish how should people contribute to society to have the right to receive such goods and services.
Everybody wins.
No surprise. No business really wants employees. Replacing all of them with outsourcing, robots, or AI is the dream. Ask anyone that has to manage the meat bags. Employees suck.
They don’t want to train.
Training is hard. It is an investment of time, money, and brainpower. It also implies that the relationship works both ways; I invest in you, you help me succeed. This flies directly in the face of today’s bottom-line-only business culture. It is also inherently human and requires empathy, care, and mutual respect. We all know that modern corporations are designed specifically to be devoid of those ideas and if they possess them, the private equity firm that buys the owners out will crush them in the acquisition.
Companies saying this are *really-* saying “we’ve only trained people before because we had to and now that we don’t, you have zero value to us. Go starve to death for all we care, just make sure you buy our products before you expire”.
Maybe we should have been giving them the tools they need to succeed? Something something plant a tree for the future, ya know? Too bad we stopped giving a shit sometime in the 80s
Uhhh, duh… look at who they voted for? I wouldn’t want one of those idiots working for me either, plus, ai doesn’t talk back, yet….
I remember my first “negative” experience with a Gen Z worker. He came up to me and asked me what he had to do before clocking off. I simply looked at him and said “Go ahead and take the trash out and then you can leave”, and went about what I was doing dealing with several other people. After a moment I noticed he was still standing there staring at me, and I asked if there was an issue to which he replied “How do I do that?”.
Everyone standing there sort of glanced at one another with the same dumbfounded look and slight grin on their face waiting for the punch line to kick in until we realized he was legitimately asking how to take the trash out. I had no idea how to even explain to someone how to do what I would consider the most basic task in existence, and I was at a complete loss for words before another guy said to come with him and he’d “show him”. It was pretty much at that moment that I came to two realizations, first society is fucked, and second I needed a new career immediately.
AI replacing workers will mean even more consolidation of capital and egregious wealth inequality. Expect to see more hundred-billionaires, while the rest of us struggle to survive.
What we need is higher corporate taxes, so the cost of each employee is less for shareholders because that money is otherwise going to the government.
“The youngest, most inexperienced staff is the most unreliable and difficult to deal with”
No shit, Sherlock. They’re an investment. You deal with the headache of getting them over the initial learning curve in a year or two, and then they can meaningfully contribute in ways AI cannot for the next 40 years.
Replace entry level with AI and let’s see how that works out for your company in 10 years when there is nobody to backfill the mid-level roles.
I have two Gen-Z engineers that work for me right now. I’m amazed that they got through engineering school because their writing and math skills are atrocious. It got bad enough that HR had to give them access to AI tools so they could compose a proper email.
I am the senior engineer so I spend most of my day checking their design work. It is frustrating because I have to send the same calculations back 4 or 5 times before they get it right. Also, this isn’t like a complex calculation. This is something a first year engineering student should be able to knock out on the first try. Basically, I’m re-teaching them concepts they should have learned in school but didn’t.
I don’t see AI taking the place of engineers in my field any time soon, but I do see it being very difficult for Gen-Z to get a job unless companies are willing to invest the time to teach them all the stuff they should have learned in school.
No one hire and expect them to magically gain experience
Understandable. GenZ are completely out of their fucking minds. Some exceptions of course.
This is going to be an unpopular opinion….but I work with a lot of Gen Z junior staff in a supervisory and educational role as a Millennial.
I have found myself getting frustrated at how to communicate more clearly that in addition to my guidance and teaching that there should be some self directed learning and growth. I really do worry that at the end of my time working with junior staff that they will not be ready to be independent.
I am always available to help and guide, but often times I find the default route is to immediately cc me or discuss a problem with me without any proposed plan or specific questions about a problem. When I try to stimulate critical thinking when this happens so that they can learn for next time, I’ve often felt like gen Z staff are annoyed that I am not just giving them the answer.
Likewise, we all have mundane tasks in our job that just need to get done. I have found that Gen Z junior staff are not as committed to doing these tasks and I’m not sure why, but it has led to negative outcomes when I’ve uncovered mistakes or omissions in these mundane tasks. It’s gotten to the point where I’ve adapted my workflow to not trust that junior staff will do things correctly that were expected to be done the right way all the time when I was in their shoes, which keeps me from being as effective in my role.
My explanation for all this is that the pandemic and political turmoil over the past few years really did a number on the skills and critical thinking development of an entire generation…which is just unfortunate, because when my generation is gone, the younger ones will need to take over and I am worried they will not be prepared to lead at the same level or better than before.
Never thought I’d think this way, really feels like I’m speaking like an old man/boomer, which I kind of hate.
I hate that AI is being perceived as the replacement for a critical younger generation that is our literal future. But I also don’t think it comes from purely a place of subjugation due to my experiences above. I’d hate an AI controlled future, to be clear.
I’m a millennial (‘96) teacher to gen-z students and I wouldn’t want to hire these kids either! They have no resilience, have never faced consequences – they’ve always been passed on to the next grade and been allowed to hand in late work without penalty, are borderline illiterate, can’t do even basic math word problems involving adding and subtracting, and expect an A for barely meeting expectations. They also cheat using AI for everything (caught 70% of students this semester) – if the only work you can produce is AI, it makes sense why the employer would bypass you and just hire the robot.
Note: I wouldn’t count ‘97-2001 in this analysis because they completed their formative schooling before the world of AI. ‘97-98 would have completed their undergrad before Covid and AI. Many of them identify more as millennials than they do gen-z and I would agree.
There is no such thing as AI.
These people are morons
As a business owner, as well as my son owns another independent business.
When offering starting wage at 50k/year for 40hr week.
Yes Gen Z nee hires are typically done in jest. Because we both have learned
1st- half after hired, don’t even show up on the 1st scheduled day
2nd-Then half that do show up will leave at lunchtime, never to be seen again
3rd-the remaining ones have absolutely no concept of “work” and spend thier time on the phone texting and have zero productivity and after 1 week if guidance and warnings, the other employees basically force you to fire them or they’ll quit.
It’s a shame, 30 years as a buisiness owner and I refuse many many contracts exceeding 5 million plus in revenue each year especially since covid simply because I, don’t want the aggravation and profit loss that I typically shared with employees in the past as job completion bonuses.
And when you fire them? They look astonished and whine about being broke and cars broke down needing paid for yo fix and babies mommas wanting money and girlfriend been sick and they been worried,
“Hire AI” LOL what are they gonna spend their first big paycheck on?
I keep seeing these posts repeatedly. Yes, jobs will be lost. That’s been the case with every major innovation, like when automobiles replaced horse-drawn carriages. Entire industries may be displaced, but new ones always emerge in their place. It’s up to us to adapt, learn new skills, and embrace change, rather than expecting others to halt progress or take responsibility for our future. These shifts don’t happen overnight. We have time to prepare if we choose to act.
If that’s the case then our systems will have totally failed us unless all this technology leads a breakthrough for some sort of UBI to make sure that newer graduates still can maintain at least a minimum semblance of a life.
Gen Z hires are brutal (in general). They don’t value sweat equity and have completely unrealistic expectations around compensation and promotions. The good news is that in banking/jnvestments the KPIs help with organic turnover.
Employees rather hire the cheapest alternative.
Whether that’s AI or H1B visa workers.
And they’ll do that to any generation of applicant, not just GenZ.
Then we need new employers… This is a path of no return
I am a teacher for 11th grade. What I see are students who can’t work in a group, ask for help when needed, are functionally illiterate and much more. Lot of them will sit there and wait to get the answers from the teacher.
We have had parents who came in because their kid has been caught cheating and told them not to be so obvious when they cheat.
Some are legit addicted to their phones.
Companies won’t hire millennial, generation-x graduates either. This article should be renamed, companies don’t want to pay humans for labour.
I would also suggest that, even if employers had top of the line employees, as soon as they think AI can do a better job for a lower cost, they’ll drop humans in a heartbeat. The goal of business is profit. And as far as it is for actual people and society, it’s only to make sure people continue to be consumers.
I promise you, they’re not discriminating only by tarting Gen Z here.
It’s more “company would rather utilise AI to do entry level jobs”
Soon they’ll crawl up the ranks.
huh, really interesting that people are so disgruntled, weird. I’m sure none of it is related.
This just in your boss is an asshole… Fuck me i never thought about that before maybe they are 🤣