The Gene generation -There are people born between approximately 1997 and 2012- they are not rethinking how to work, but also When to stop, how to rest and what to live.
It is not a generation that has been declared on permanent strike. It is a generation that, in the midst of hyperconnection, psycho -emotional inflation and blurring between work and personal, chose to pause the mandate of making constant. What for some is confusion, for them it is coherence.
For decades, being tired was almost a merit. The one who stayed late was an example. He who didn’t have time for himself was a commitment model. Today, the narrative changed. The z -genus understood something that many organizations have a hard time processing: It is not innovated from exhaustion. It is not created under permanent pressure. And a decent life is not built if the price is to lose physical or mental health on the road.
That’s why, Taking a pause is no longer seen as a failure, but as a lucid decision. Rest is not a prize. It is a right, a well -being strategy and even a necessary limit to systems that often naturalized abuse as part of the contract.
The new core of change: accept the transition
What we need to understand – once – is that we are in Transition stage. Not only how we work, but of the very work conceptof consumption, of links, how we lead, how we ascend and even how we exist in productive systems.
And if: I have tired listening to broken egosdesperate because their titles no longer shine, or because they know that they will soon stop serving as a passport to power. Egos that refuse to release what no longer works, and that try “Delete” or “procrastinate” the newin order to continue defending obsolete procedures that only perpetuate the accumulation of cucardas, trophies and a noventive success that was already.
The transition must be accepted to evolve. In a short time we will see repeated figurines fall, the soulless coaching phrases, and the factories of molded leaders with the same machine. And other forms will arise. More genuine. More human. More aware. Because this change cannot be stopped: it can be resisted or can be inhabited.
Mini-Retiros: Beyond the whim
In 2007, Timothy Ferriss wrote The 4-Hour Workweek And he proposed interspersed Mini-Retiros “Long work panels, instead of waiting at 65 to rest.” By then, it seemed an eccentricity. Today, that idea was adopted, adapted and resigned by an entire generation.
It’s not just going on a trip. Is redefine the relationship with time, with the body, with vocation, with desire. It is not to get to Monday or on Sunday with anguish. It is allowing time to have texture and not just speed. One of my 26 -year -old patients told me something that still resonates me: “I don’t want to give up working, I want to give up getting sick to work.” And in that phrase there is a whole philosophy.
What do we do with the void?
The pause is not comfortable. Bring questions, silences, social comparison. But also activates something else: The opportunity to build a link with work that is neither toxic or idealized. The problem is that many companies are still looking for “commitment” in the 20th century: permanence, silence, blind loyalty. But the new commitment is not measured in overtime, but as a link. And that – news news – is not bought with free fruits or motivational phrases on the wall.
They don’t want to be heroes. They want to be people
Today’s young people do not have great dreams of climbing without stopping. They do not look for the office on the highest floor. They seek to have health. Be fine. Have time. Rent without fear. Make decisions without anxiety. Share a mate without looking at the clock. Does it mean that they don’t strive? No. It means that They want to strive in what is worth it.
The new covenant (which we still do not sign)
We are in transition. In that interregno where the old no longer works and the new is not yet at all clear. And like any transition, bothers those who grew up with certainty.
Maybe that’s why this note is not to convince anyone, but to leave something in suspense. Perhaps what generation Z is saying with its micro retirement, its strategic pauses and its uncomfortable silences is simple: We need another way of working. Not perfect, but more human. Not rigid, but possible. Not eternal, but sustainable.
And perhaps that is not a generational demand. Maybe it’s a question that we should all be doing While we already have the wishes of the children of millennials and some x how I (the so -called Alpha generation) that definitely do not come to adapt, come to reprogram.
Labor psychologist, Labor & Coach Consultant of the New Age | Ceo @work.mejor | Specialist in AI and Business Automation.
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