They’re at their desks, juggling Slack messages and Zoom calls, their career ambitions quietly shifting. Meet Gen Z: the generation that watches older workers climb the ladder, take on titles, manage teams — and thinks: “No thanks.”

Remember those corporate ladders? Turns out, half of Gen Z workers don’t want to climb them.

THEY SAW WHAT IT COST

In a survey by recruitment firm Robert Walters, 52% of Gen Z professionals said they don’t want to hold middle-management roles.

More than two-thirds flagged these roles as “too much stress, too little reward.” The Week+1 It’s not that they lack ambition. Far from it. They just define success differently.

Having seen older generations log long hours, bear the brunt of reorganisations and carry heavy emotional loads, many younger workers ask a

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