{"id":99065,"date":"2023-09-21T00:21:36","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T00:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebritycovernews.com\/?p=99065"},"modified":"2023-09-21T00:21:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T00:21:36","slug":"gen-z-cant-work-with-people-with-different-views-says-channel-4-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebritycovernews.com\/world-news\/gen-z-cant-work-with-people-with-different-views-says-channel-4-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Gen Z can&apos;t work with people with different views says Channel 4 boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Generation Z can&#8217;t work alongside people with different views and don&#8217;t have the skills to debate, says Channel 4 boss as she cites the pandemic as the main cause of the workplace challenge<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Alex Mahon said Gen Z youngsters haven&#8217;t got the skills to discuss and disagree<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Gen Z refers to people born between the middle 1990s and the early 2010s<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Young people in the workplace don&#8217;t have the skills to debate, disagree and work alongside people with different opinions, Channel 4&#8217;s chief executive has said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the Royal Television Society&#8217;s Cambridge Convention, Alex Mahon said &#8216;particularly post-pandemic&#8217; Gen Z youngsters &#8216;haven&#8217;t got the skills to discuss&#8217; and &#8216;haven&#8217;t got the skills to disagree&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>She said this phenomenon, which was being seen in the workplace, was a &#8216;dangerous step change&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The Channel 4 boss cited the time youngsters had spent &#8216;being out of colleges&#8217; during the pandemic, meaning they had not been exposed as much to &#8216;people with a difference of opinion&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Gen Z usually refers to people born between the middle to late 1990s and the early 2010s.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/20\/22\/75660153-12542363-image-a-281_1695247077706.jpg\" height=\"476\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Channel 4 boss Alex Mahon (pictured) said &#8216;particularly post-pandemic&#8217; Gen Z youngsters &#8216;haven&#8217;t got the skills to discuss&#8217; and &#8216;haven&#8217;t got the skills to disagree&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/20\/22\/75659989-12542363-image-a-273_1695246379805.jpg\" height=\"954\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Alex Mahon made her claims while speaking at the Royal Television Society&#8217;s Cambridge Convention<\/p>\n<p>Ms Mahon told the Royal Television Society Cambridge Convention: &#8216;What we are seeing with young people who come into the workplace &#8211; Gen Z &#8211; particularly post pandemic &#8211; with this concentration of short form content [short videos on services like Tik Tok and YouTube] is they haven&#8217;t got the skills to debate things.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They haven&#8217;t got the skills to discuss, they haven&#8217;t got the skills to disagree and commit because they haven&#8217;t been raised, particularly with being out of colleges to have those kind of debates, to get to the point where you&#8217;ve got people with a difference of opinion to you and your happy to work alongside that and that is a really dangerous step change in my view that we are seeing.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Last year Channel 4 carried out research which showed these youngsters are less tolerant of others&#8217; views than their parents or grandparents.<\/p>\n<p>The study found that young people could therefore be said to be &#8216;less liberal&#8217; than their elders. The research branded this phenomenon as the &#8216;rise of the Young Illiberal Progressives&#8217; or &#8216;Yips&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>During Ms Mahon&#8217;s appearance at the event she unveiled new research which showed that many &#8216;associate their short form social media consumption with feeling a lack of control&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/20\/23\/75660181-12542363-image-a-2_1695247739814.jpg\" height=\"476\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Young people in the workplace don&#8217;t have the skills to debate, disagree and work alongside people with different opinions, Channel 4 &#8216;s chief executive Alex Mahon (pictured) said<\/p>\n<p>It was added: &#8216;When the algorithm is in charge, people say they feel emotionally out of control &#8211; the immediate dopamine-hit fades rapidly and they are left feeling empty.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>It added that it gave them a sense that their lives had been &#8216;encroached upon&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The research said viewers in Britain felt &#8216;anxious about video overload&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>People watch over five hours per day &#8216;and the video day is lengthening&#8217;, Ms Mahon revealed, adding that &#8216;short-form viewing has piled on to long form viewing, and gaming has piled in on top of both&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12542363\/generation-z-alex-mahon-channel-4-gen-z-cambridge-convention.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generation Z can&#8217;t work alongside people with different views and don&#8217;t have the skills to debate, says Channel 4 boss<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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