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Irish Times: Gen Z want managers to change the way we work

In a discussion with Margaret E. Ward for The Irish Times, Marcie shares how Gen Z’s expectations are pushing employers to rethink the role of managers. She explains why leaders need to become coaches who help younger employees develop, while making clear that Gen Z must also bring effort, initiative, and new ideas.

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Fortune: Employers, beware: Gen Z is the ‘pragmatic generation’ redefining success, seeing money as just a means to an end, landmark EY survey says

Fortune draws on landmark global EY research led and co-authored by Marcie to explore why Gen Z is better understood as the “pragmatic generation.” The article examines how young adults are redefining success around well-being, strong relationships, and flexibility, and what that shift means for employers.

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Career EQ Podcast: Gen Z in the workplace - Part 1

Gen Z started entering the workforce right around the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and have faced challenges and generational stereotypes regarding motivation, professionalism, communications skills, entitlement, ability to receive and address criticism, etc. Find out what rising Gen Z professionals can do to avoid such stereotypes and how they can make their generational imprint on the workplace from one of the nation’s leading #GenZ experts, Marcie Merriman, Managing Director, Global Cultural Insights and Consumer Strategy Leader at EY.

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Better Heroes Podcast: How to Prepare for an Ever-Changing Future of Work

More than half of all companies use AI in their work today - and that number is only going to grow. But not everyone has the opportunity to prepare for that future and learn about this rapidly changing technology. In this podcast, Naria Santa Lucia, GM for Microsoft Philanthropies and Marcie Merriman for EY, discuss the implications for people, businesses and society at large.

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Fortune: Many Gen Zers have a full-time job and a side hustle, partly because they’re wary of getting burned by their employers: ‘They’ve seen it happen to their parents, to millennials’

Marcie speaks with Paolo Confino for Fortune about why side hustles have become both practical and desirable for Gen Z. Drawing on EY research, she explains how financial uncertainty, digital opportunity and a different relationship with work are leading the generation to normalize multiple income streams.

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