Hacker News with Generative AI: Gen Z

Companies are firing Gen Z employees soon after hiring them (euronews.com)
A recent report found that companies were dissatisfied with their Generation Z (Gen Z) new hires and may avoid hiring recent graduates in the future.
Gen Z, Employment, Labor Market, Hiring Practices
9 points by makerdiety 34 days ago | 5 comments
Gen Z's definition of financial success includes joining the top 1% (fortune.com)
According to a recent survey from financial firm Empower, Gen Zers on average believe an annual salary of $587,797 and net worth of $9.47 million are needed when they envision “financial success.”
Gen Z, Finance, Wealth, Millennials, Survey
14 points by paulpauper 49 days ago | 12 comments
Why Gen Z and Millennials Are Splurging Instead of Saving (cnbc.com)
Generations, Millennials, Gen Z, Finance, Saving
5 points by Dore_nova 117 days ago | 4 comments
Wikipedia is facing an existential crisis. Can Gen Z save it? (theguardian.com)
Established in 2001, Wikipedia is an “old man” by internet standards. But the role it plays in our collective knowledge of the world remains astonishing. Content from the free internet encyclopedia appears in everything from high-school term papers and pub trivia questions to search engine summaries and voice assistants. Tools like Google’s AI Overviews and ChatGPT rely heavily on Wikipedia, although they rarely credit the site in their responses.
Wikipedia, Gen Z, Online Encyclopedias, Artificial Intelligence
6 points by beardyw 128 days ago | 2 comments
Gen Z job seekers should be willing to work for free, long hours (fortune.com)
Gen Z, Job Market, Labor, Work Culture, Economics
7 points by zhengiszen 180 days ago | 4 comments
Noplace, a mashup of Twitter and Myspace for Gen Z, hits No. 1 on the App Store (techcrunch.com)
Social Media, Gen Z, Mobile Apps, App Store
10 points by jshprentz 198 days ago | 2 comments
Gen Z Plumbers and Construction Workers Are Making BlueCollar Cool (wsj.com)
Gen Z, Construction, Plumbing, Labor, Culture
38 points by JumpCrisscross 222 days ago | 27 comments
Gen Zers struggling to stay in work or school– and the parents who are at a loss (businessinsider.com)
Gen Z, Workforce, Education, Family, Mental Health
33 points by rntn 265 days ago | 37 comments
Gen Z recreates MySpace as 'Nospace' – there's a 380K-person waitlist (nypost.com)
Gen Z, Nostalgia, Social Media, Technology, Internet
12 points by mikhael 269 days ago | 0 comments