WWD: Food, Fuel and Fashion: Retailers Manage to Convince Shoppers to Spend More
In a discussion with Evan Clark from Women’s Wear Daily, Marcie shares how some retailers are able to stay strong on prices despite growing consumer economic concerns. The strongest are getting more focused on who they serve, investing in the experience, and giving frontline employees the tools to make that value real.
The Wall Street Journal: Layoffs Aren’t Shaking Gen Z’s Commitment to Work-Life Balance
In a discussion with Oyin Adedoyin and Ray A. Smith for The Wall Street Journal, Marcie explains why recent layoffs have only reinforced Gen Z's belief that loyalty to an employer may not be returned.
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.
Multifamily Executive: Marcie Merriman on Gen Z, Trust and the Future of Living
In an interview with Multifamily Executive, Marcie Merriman explores how Gen Z’s desire for authenticity and ‘deep living’ is reshaping where and how people want to live. She explains why multifamily leaders need to pair modern convenience with real community, character, and trust.
Fortune: Gen Z is adopting ‘career minimalism,’ killing off the ladder for a ‘lily pad’ mentality, Glassdoor says
In Fortune, Nick Lichtenberg cites global research led by Marcie showing that Gen Z approaches traditional milestones with pragmatism and “reasoned skepticism.” The article explores how that mindset is reshaping ambition, management, and the traditional career ladder.
Fortune: Gen Z wants to have their AI cake and eat it, too: KPMG intern survey reveals a generation that wants to have things both ways
Citing research coauthored by Marcie Merriman, Fortune examines how Gen Z is approaching AI and the future of work. The article describes a pragmatic generation that embraces new technology while still prioritizing human mentorship, flexibility and long-term career stability.
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.
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.
Forbes: Top EY Researcher Says These 3 Things Are Missing For Gen Z Workforce
In a discussion with Chris Westfall for Forbes, Marcie shares what her research reveals about the three things employers are missing when it comes to attracting, developing, and retaining Gen Z talent.
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.
Digital First Magazine: Driving Human-Centered Business Innovation
In this Digital First Magazine cover feature, Marcie share how understanding human needs can help businesses uncover new opportunities and drive meaningful innovation. She also reflects on her career and her belief in the power of business to improve people’s lives.
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.
Authority Magazine: The Great Resignation & The Future Of Work: EY’s Marcie Merriman On How Employers and Employees Are Reworking Work Together
In an interview with Karen Mangia for Authority Magazine, Marcie explores how Gen Z’s expectations for flexibility, authenticity and empathy are reshaping the future of work. She shares what employers need to rethink to attract and retain the next generation.
Consulting Magazine: The 2019 Top 25 Consultants: Marcie Merriman
Consulting Magazine named Marcie one of its 2019 Top 25 Consultants, recognizing her work at EY for Excellence in Leadership. The profile explores how her outsider perspective shaped her distinctive approach to business, leadership and consulting.